Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST97SW SADLER'S MEAD
930-1/1/178 Monkton House
25/04/50
(Formerly Listed as:
SADLER'S MEAD
Monkton House (Flats Nos. 1-7))

II

Manor house, now flats. Dated 1757. Limestone ashlar,
double-pitched slate roof with ashlar ridge stacks to front
and rear ranges and one to the left of the valley.
Mid-Georgian style. L-shaped plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 7-bay range, 4 windows to the
left return, 3 bays to the right return. The central 3 bays
step slightly forward under a modillioned pediment; modillion
cornice to front and returns; parapet balustraded over the
windows; moulded architraves to windows, 3/6-pane sash windows
to the 2nd floor, 6/6-pane sashes with cornices to the rest.
Prostyle portico with Ionic columns supporting an entablature
with a pulvinated palmette frieze and dentilled cornice over a
moulded architrave to a 8-flush-panelled door.
The rear is 5-window range, a large semicircular-arched stair
window with a keystone is to the left of centre. A lead
rainwater head and pipe is dated "1757".
INTERIOR: not inspected but noted as having been altered
during conversion to flats.

Listing NGR: ST9255673294

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558288

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Recommended Books

• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)