Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9172 ROWDEN HILL 930-1/11/174 (East side) 22/06/78 No.51 and attached walls and gate piers

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House. Mid C19. Limestone ashlar with hipped slate roof and 2 moulded ashlar stacks to rear. L-shaped plan with a rear left wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 4-window range. Platband, plinth and chamfered rusticated quoins; raised surrounds; margin panes with small square panes at the corners, to plate-glass sash windows. Left-of-centre 4-panelled door glazed to the top, fanlight with small margin panes, engaged columns to a Tuscan doorcase; a window above is semicircular-arched with similar glazing. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to left corner is a high ashlar wall with a semicircular-arched opening to the rear wing. The wall sweeps forward for approx 10m and down to meet a pier at the corner of the garden. The garden is fronted by a low rubblestone wall with freestone coping for approx 30m. Chamfered gate piers toward the left and another at the right-hand corner have cornices and pyramidal caps.

Listing NGR: ST9123672683

External Links

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