Wiltshire County Council Offices, County And Magistrates Court

The building known as the Wiltshire County Council Offices and County and Magistrates' Court in Chippenham dates back to around 1840. It features a limestone ashlar facade, with rubblestone at the rear and brick architraves on the rear wing. The roof is a slate mansard style, with ashlar slacks on the right side and rear wing. The structure has a double-depth plan and includes a late 19th-century rear wing.

The exterior is two storeys tall, with attics and a basement, and has a four-window range. It has coped gable ends and a parapet, along with a platband and plinth. To the left of center, there was originally a pedimented Tuscan doorcase, which has since been converted into a window. On the ground floor, this is flanked by tripartite windows set in semi-elliptical recesses, featuring roundels at the keystones, now fitted with late 19th-century plate-glass sashes. Above the former entrance is a semicircular-arched 6/6-pane sash window, flanked by similar Venetian windows, with another Venetian window to the far right over a wide semicircular-arched carriage entrance that now serves as a door. The arch has roll-edge moulding on the intrados and is complemented by Regency-style iron gates, likely from the 20th century. Hipped dormers with 2-light casement windows sit above the Venetian windows, and a single-light window is positioned above the original door.

Inside, the right-hand ground-floor room, located between the original entrance and the carriage entrance, may have once served as a dining room. It features a high skirting board, an elaborate cornice, and a recess at the rear likely intended for a sideboard, flanked by Corinthian columns. The reeded moulding in the entrance hall, which is now part of this room, has a cornice that stops behind a shallow panelled arch on corbels that once led to the stairwell.