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Latitude: 51.3646 / 51°21'52"N
Longitude: -2.125 / 2°7'30"W
OS Eastings: 391391
OS Northings: 162846
OS Grid: ST913628
Mapcode National: GBR 1SB.9KJ
Mapcode Global: VH96R.3YYR
Plus Code: 9C3V9V7F+RX
Entry Name: 399 and 400 the Spa
Listing Date: 13 February 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1194751
English Heritage Legacy ID: 314424
ID on this website: 101194751
Location: Bowerhill, Wiltshire, SN12
County: Wiltshire
Civil Parish: Melksham Without
Built-Up Area: Melksham
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire
Church of England Parish: Melksham
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
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MELKSHAM WITHOUT
THE SPA, MELKSHAM
(east side)
Nos 399 and 400
GV
II
Pair of attached houses. Early C19. Ashlar front and sides;
rubblestone to rear, Welsh slate hipped roof, ashlar and brick
stacks. 4 storeys, 4 windows. Entrance doors are to left and
right, up stone and brick steps to first floor, rusticated flat-
roofed porches with semi-circular headed doorways, fanlights and 6
fielded panelled double doors. Entrance to No 399 has wrought iron
porch and canopy in addition to stone porch. Basement has two 8-
pane sashes and French windows; missing to No 399 and C20 to No
400. First floor is rusticated with four 8-pane sashes in semi-
elliptical panels. Plat band with key pattern to second floor,
four tall 8-pane sashes with wrought iron balconies. Third floor
has four smaller 8-pane sashes, windows of second and third floors
are separated by grooved pilasters carried up to cornice, panelled
frieze below. Blocking course. Left and right returns have blind
semi-circular rusticated arched windows to first floor of porch and
oculi to ground floor. Rear has four sashes with semi-circular
headed windows Lighting stairs.
Interior of No 400, (No 399 not inspected): Main feature is second
floor drawing room with large 6-panelled double doors in grooved
case, linking front and back of house; moulded plaster cornice and
high skirting boards. First -floor rooms have less elaborate
plaster cornice. Part of a spa development in Melksham of c1815
whose success was shortlived.
(Melksham Guide 1815; V.C.H. Wiltshire, Vol. 7, 1953)
Listing NGR: ST9139162846
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