Westmead House And Attached Wall

Westmead House is an early 19th-century house located on Westmead Lane in Chippenham, facing south at a right angle to the road. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a freestone eaves cornice, lintel band, architraves, plinth, and quoins. It has a hipped slate roof with stacks at the rear and a bracketed gutter. The house has a 2-unit plan, with a 20th-century west wing and an 18th-century rear wing that is now listed separately as No. 26 Westmead Lane.

The exterior of Westmead House is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window range. It features 20th-century replica doors and windows, with semicircular arches over a six-panel door and a first-floor window that has unusual radial glazing bars. The windows are flanked by horned 8/8-pane sash windows.

Inside, the ground floor includes six-panel doors in moulded architraves, panelled shutters, and a white marble fire surround in the right-hand room. The left-hand room has a repositioned Adam-style fire surround flanked by semi-elliptical recesses. There is a dogleg staircase with stick balusters and a cast-iron arch-plate register grate on the first floor.

Attached to the south-east corner of the house is a Flemish-bond brick wall approximately 3 meters high, which extends about 7 meters southward and fronts the street. This wall features an entrance at the end with an upside-down 19th-century Gothic-style door that has vertical panels.