19, St Mary Street

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW ST MARY STREET 930-1/10/190 (West side) 25/04/50 No.19

GV II*

House. Early C18 with early C19 rear wing. Limestone ashlar with rubblestone plinth, rubblestone to the rear, stone slate mansard roof hipped to the left, ashlar stacks to rear, that to the rear wing is brick with a moulded ashlar shaft. Central stair-hall plan with rear right wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic and basement; symmetrical 5-window range. Fine moulded cornice, high parapet with moulded coping, ground-floor lintel string course and chamfered rusticated quoins. Painted moulded architraves to C18 6-over-6-pane sash windows with thick glazing bars. The central bay is stepped slightly forward with pediments to the cornice and lintel string, which is on brackets, over the door. Steps up to a 6-panel door with raised and fielded panels, a margin-paned overlight and moulded architrave. Plain stone mullion to a 2-light basement window to the right. Cyma-moulded mullion to a 2-light window in the gable of the left return. The rear has 2 hipped dormers and two 6/6-pane sash windows in moulded architraves. The early C19 rear wing has timber lintels to the openings, a roll-edge moulding to a margin-paned sash window and a hood on brackets to a central door. INTERIOR: the hall has a modillion cornice and an open-well, open-string staircase with a fluted column newel, swept handrail and corresponding dado. The ground-floor rooms have box cornices. A semicircular arch over a straight flight of stone steps behind the left-hand room, lead to a barrel-vaulted, stone-flagged cellar below the main building. The 3-bay roof has tenoned purlins and ridge in notch. The rear wing has 3 cross-beams and a brick breast to an open fire. The facade is of similar design to No.61 (qv), probably of 1702.

Listing NGR: ST9235073111