Tudor House

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW THE CAUSEWAY 930-1/10/247 (East side) 25/04/50 No.53 Tudor House

GV II

House, now a shop. Late C17. Timber-framed with plastered panels; stone slate roof to the front, including 3 dormers; double-Roman tiles to the rear wing; brick stacks to the rear of the main block and rear-left of the rear wing. L-shaped plan with parallel rear range, (U-shaped). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 3-window range. The central dormer is hipped, flanked by gabled dormers, all with C19 2-light casement windows. The 1st floor is close-studded with a jettied gabled central 4-light mullioned and transomed bay window flanked by pargetted panels, 2-light transomed casement windows and diagonal bracing to the outer corners. To the ground floor, the bay is flanked by slate pent roofs over rectangular shop-window bays which flank the C20 door in a C17 moulded architrave. To the right, under the pent roof, is a C17 stud-and-panel door with wrought-iron strap hinges. The right return has a 3-light leaded casement to the 1st floor with C17 translucent glass over a fixed window of 3 rows of 7 panes. The gable of the rear block is timber-framed with soft eroded red-brick nogging, the main wall is stretcher-bond brick with one C19 window to both floors. INTERIOR: flanking the central passage from the front block to the rear are C17 planked doors with fine wrought-iron strap hinges; that to the right leads to the cellar. The winder stair above it has splat balusters and square newels. The room to the rear wing has an oak bressumer over a stone Tudor-arched architrave with plain spandrels to an open fire which backs onto the front block; exposed close studding and rafters; a chamfered cross-beam; a fixed window to the right, of 3 rows of 7 small panes. The room to the left of the rear block has a smaller open fire with a moulded architrave to the rear left; stone stairs to the centre; the kitchen to the right has exposed rafters. The roofs to front and rear blocks are 3-bays, that to the front with external purlins, windbraces and wide oak floorboards; that to the rear with threaded purlins. C17 planked doors and one thin C18 2-panel door to the attic with large lock and key. Stone steps to the cellar under the front block which has one chamfered crossbeam. A fine late C17 town house exhibiting a characteristic late use of timber-framing.

Listing NGR: ST9226873136