Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW ST MARY STREET
930-1/10/209 (East side)
22/06/78 Stable, garden wall and gate piers
to No.55 (The Grove)
(Formerly Listed as:
ST MARY STREET
Garden wall and gate piers at No.55
(The Grove))
(Formerly Listed as:
ST MARY STREET
(East side)
Stable at No.55 (The Grove))

GV II

Stable, walls and gate piers. Early C18. Limestone rubble with
freestone quoins and dressings; double-Roman tile roof coped,
with gabled finials and moulded kneelers to gable ends.
Rectangular plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; no windows to the 1st floor. The street
front (west) has a semicircular-arched loading bay to the 1st
floor with a C20 planked door; to the right of the south gable
end is a chamfered freestone architrave to an early C19
6-panel door with flush panels and a timber lintel to a small
window opening to the left.
The east front, facing the garden has two 2-light
stone-mullioned windows with stepped cyma moulding under a
continuous hoodmould to the ground floor.
The north wall is blank.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a rubblestone garden wall with freestone
capping, approx 2m high, borders the garden onto St Mary
Street (west), and extends approx 22m to the north where it is
attached to No.55, The Grove (qv). It also extends approx 35m
to the south of the stable. Close to the house is an early C18
rusticated stone architrave and broken pediment to a 6-panel
door. Close to the south corner of the stable are 2 ashlar
gate piers with pyramidal caps to C19 diagonally-planked
double gates (restored C20) with spiked tops.

Listing NGR: ST9229173300

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558271

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