Orpin'S House is a Grade II* listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1952. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Orpin'S House
- WRENN ID
- other-keep-alder
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1952
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
- CHURCH STREET 5411 (North Side)
No 8 (Orpin's House) ST 8260 2/18 18.4.52.
II* GV
- Late C17. Ashlar, stone-tiled roof, rusticated quoins. 2 storeys and attics in 2 gables. 3 windows 2-light casements with stone mullions and architrave surrounds, windows leaded. Two small square window openings, glazed with bottle glass, between centre window and side windows on lst floor. Moulded string at first floor level and moulded cornice at attic floor level. Stone door surround with Tuscan pilasters, architrave, frieze with triglyphs and guttae, and flat cornice. Semi-circular-headed doorway with keystone and imposts. Square ashlar stacks at gable ends. In this house lived Edward Orpin, for 40 years Parish Clerk of Bradford-on-Avon (died 1781). He was the original of Gainsborough's painting "The Parish Clerk" in the National Gallery.
All the listed buildings in Church Street the Chantry Little Chantry, Barton Orchard and the Catholic Church of St Thomas More, Market Street form a group with Nos 7 and 9 to 19 Barton Orchard, Nos 5 and 6 and 27 to 31 (consec) and wall Newtown.
Listing NGR: ST8236960883
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