Description

CALNE

ST9971 MARKET HILL
755-1/4/93 (North side)
19/05/50 No.3

GV II*

Formerly known as: St Brigett's, St Mary's School MARKET HILL.

House, school, now offices. Dated 1683, restored c1980.
Rendered limestone rubble, ashlar right-hand lateral stack and
stone slate hipped roof with flat, leaded centre. Double-depth
plan with right-hand stair.
3 storeys, attic and cellar; 3-window range. Road front has a
first-floor drip course; right of centre entrance with an
early C19 timber bracketed pediment, ashlar surround and
6-panel door, with wrought-iron rails to steps up. Early or
mid C19 ground-floor 6/6-pane sashes, paired to the left;
bolection-moulded architraves to late C18 6/6-pane first-floor
sashes, and original stone-mullioned and transomed
second-floor cavetto-moulded cross windows.
W front has a continuous ground-floor label mould and
first-floor string, with bolection-moulded paired ground-floor
6/6-pane sashes, and original 3- and central 2-light cross
windows above; 2 late C20 hipped dormers, replacing a central
one. Central sundial inscribed 1683. 2 similar cross windows
light stairs to right-hand return.
INTERIOR: details include a fine late C17 dogleg stair with
turned balusters, square panelled newels, uncut string; fully
panelled rear right-hand room and fire surround; vaulted
cellar; C18 roof with plastered central room and 3-plank door,
inscribed JG/1786; original 2-panel doors; first-floor C19
Egyptian Revival hob grates in bolection-moulded surrounds.
The front room has a fine C17 stone fire surround and
overmantel from Castle House (qv), with a carved central panel
of a burning crocodile, and 2 figures supporting a painted
cartouche. The flat, leaded roof may formerly have supported a
lantern.

Listing NGR: ST9968671037

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543875

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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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