Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9173NE ST MARY'S PLACE 930-1/6/277 (South East side) 07/12/93 Nos.1-7 (Consecutive) and Ruskin Cottage

GV II

House and attached row of 7 cottages. c1850s. Ruskin Cottage of limestone ashlar, others of coursed and dressed limestone; slate and concrete tile roofs, each dwelling with moulded cornicing to end stacks. Ruskin Cottage of double-depth plan; cottages each with parlour to front and rear service wing. EXTERIOR: Ruskin Cottage of 3 storeys with basement; 2-window 1st-floor south-west front has horned 6/6-pane and 8/8-pane sashes, with decorative cast-iron 1st-floor balcony. Nos 1-7 of 2 storeys and each of 2-window 1st-floor range: plain raised architraves to 6/6-pane 1st-floor sashes and 3/6-pane ground-floor sashes, with some later C19 and C20 replacements (to Nos 4, 5 and 6), and to panelled doors (C20 replacements to Nos 4-6) with overlights. INTERIOR: not inspected. A well-preserved row of workers' housing, built in an area developed for housing and industry after the arrival of the railway in 1840-1 and similar in style to cottages erected for workers at the Rowland Brotherhood's engineering works Nos 52-67 Marshfield Road (qv).

Listing NGR: ST9194573528

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