Number 30 And Attached Walls And Gate Piers

CHIPPENHAM

ST9173NE NEW ROAD 930-1/6/158 (West side) 22/06/78 No.30 and attached walls and gate piers (Formerly Listed as: NEW ROAD (West side) Nos.30-32 (Consecutive))

GV II

House, now a doctor's surgery. Mid C19. Limestone ashlar, hipped slate roof with elaborately-moulded ashlar stacks to left and rear. Symmetrical double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. Plinth, rusticated architraves and modillion cornice returned half-way along the right return; 2-storey canted bays with hipped roofs; plain architraves with rounded corners to plate-glass sash windows, those to the ground floor have a cornice. The stone doorcase has engaged Corinthian capitals supporting a cornice and blocking course. C20 door and overlight. Above it the window has a raised eared-and-shouldered surround. The right return has glazed double doors to the right with margin panes and a cornice on consoles. The rear has a double-pitched roof to a single-storey wing. It has a wide segmental arch with a glazed tympanum, a flush 4-panel door and a 2-light window with margin panes. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the front garden is enclosed by coped ashlar walls approx 1m high, and piers with pyramidal caps. One of a group of houses in New Road built after the arrival of the railway in 1840-41.

Listing NGR: ST9190173818