Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9173NW MARSHFIELD ROAD
930-1/5/141 (North side)
22/06/78 Nos.37 AND 38
Verona Villas and attached front
walls and gate piers
(Formerly Listed as:
MARSHFIELD ROAD
(North side)
Nos.37-40 (Consecutive))

GV II

Pair of houses. Late C19. Squared limestone rubble with
freestone dressings to the facade, English-bond brick to the
rest; hipped slate roofs and axial ashlar ridge stacks with
plinths and cornices. Double-depth plans.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; the pairs are symmetrical, each house is
2-window range. Plate-glass sash windows to the 1st floor have
moulded architraves dying into eaves cornices and continuous
sills. The central paired mostly 4-pane doors are set in stone
Tuscan doorcases which have shared dentilled pediments with
carved tympana and urn finials. To the sides are canted bays
with cornices and blocking courses.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the front gardens are enclosed by low
rubblestone walls with chamfered capping articulated by large
piers with dentilled cornices and pyramidal caps.

Listing NGR: ST9147473815

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558352

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990