Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW ST MARY STREET
930-1/10/204 (North side)
22/06/78 Nos.64 AND 65

GV II

House, 2 houses in 1820, now offices in one ownership.
Probably early C17 with mid C18 and C19 alterations. Painted
roughcast and render over limestone rubble, painted freestone
dressings, stone slate roof with 3 small hipped dormers, brick
stacks to the left gable end and rear. 3-unit plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 3-window range. Bracketed
gutter. 3/3-pane sash windows to the outer dormers, 2-light
casement window to the centre. The left-of-centre C20 door is
set in a C18 raised chamfered doorcase with a pediment on
consoles, it is flanked on both floors by 3-light
stone-mullioned windows with C19 sashes between 2-pane fixed
lights. A similar window to the 1st-floor right has small
panes over an early C19 8-over-8-pane sash window. To the far
right is a moulded hood on brackets to a chamfered surround
and C19 4-panel door. The rear is a C20 rebuild.
INTERIOR: a chamfered axial beam to the centre of the ground
floor; to the left gable end is a restored stone Tudor-arched
fireplace, a large chimney-breast to the rear has a C20
fireplace. The cellar below is now in commercial use. The 1st
floor has 2 cross-beams with run-out stops and an open fire
with moulded surround and mantelshelf to the left gable end.
The 3-bay collar-beam roof has tenoned purlins.
HISTORY: this was The Black Horse Public House in the C18.
(Chamberlain, Joseph A: Chippenham: Chippenham: 1976-: 112).

Listing NGR: ST9220073284

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558276

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)