Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9172 ROWDEN HILL
930-1/11/177 (West side)
22/06/78 St Margaret's Convent and attached
walls
(Formerly Listed as:
ROWDEN HILL
(West side)
St Margaret's Convent)

II

House, now a convent. Dated 1765 with C19 and C20 additions.
Rendered limestone ashlar, freestone rusticated quoins and
dressings stone slate roof, mansard to the main block, pitched
to the rear wing, moulded brick stacks to gable ends and
centre slope of rear wing, that to the front left is large.
PLAN: 2-unit plan with C19 rear right wing and C20 chapel to
the left.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey; symmetrical 5-window range. Wide coped
gables, cornice, parapet, platband and moulded architraves to
plate-glass sash windows, that to the centre is
semicircular-arched with a keystone, imposts and a datestone
"1765".
Attached to the left return is a C20 single-storey chapel with
a roof hipped over a canted return to the left with
flat-arched windows, paired to the front and single-light to
the facets of the return. A C20 hipped stone-slated colonnaded
porch extends approx 15m to the street.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: limestone ashlar walls approx 2m high
flank the porch and extend approx 60m to the left and 50m to
the right.

Listing NGR: ST9131172763

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558318

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Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide