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Wiltshire Area Health Authority Headquarters

A Grade II Listed Building in Chippenham, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4529 / 51°27'10"N

Longitude: -2.128 / 2°7'40"W

OS Eastings: 391199

OS Northings: 172665

OS Grid: ST911726

Mapcode National: GBR 1R5.W85

Mapcode Global: VH96C.2RB2

Plus Code: 9C3VFV3C+5Q

Entry Name: Wiltshire Area Health Authority Headquarters

Listing Date: 22 June 1978

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1267928

English Heritage Legacy ID: 462404

ID on this website: 101267928

Location: Wiltshire, SN15

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: Chippenham

Built-Up Area: Chippenham

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Church of England Parish: Chippenham with Tytherton Lucas

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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Description


CHIPPENHAM

ST9172 ROWDEN HILL 930-1/11/175 (East side) 22/06/78 No.53 Wiltshire Area Health Authority Headquarters

II

Large house, now offices. c1870. Limestone ashlar, hipped slate roof with moulded ashlar stacks to the front slope and rear. Eclectic style, mostly Classical with some Rundbogen details. L-shaped plan with C20 wing to the rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Plate-glass sash windows. The entrance facade facing north has chamfered rusticated quoins, eaves band, platband and plinth and a modillion cornice to eaves and pediment. The pediment, over the stepped-forward central bay, has an ornamented oculus to the tympanum. 2-light windows to the 1st floor have semicircular-arched moulded archivolts with ornamented keystones and imposts and triple-bracketed sills to paired semicircular-arched sash windows. Ground-floor windows have moulded architraves and cornices on consoles over segmental-arched sashes. The large chamfered rusticated ashlar porch has an arch to each side with keystones to moulded archivolts on an impost string course. The front arch is flanked by small recesses below the string course. The parapet to the porch is pierced circles between panelled piers. The west garden front is similar but the central bay is wider, a larger pediment has shields in the tympanum over a 4-light window and a canted bay similar to the porch, but with moulded architraves and keystones to full-height segmental-arched sash windows. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST9119972665

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