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Latitude: 51.4582 / 51°27'29"N
Longitude: -2.1144 / 2°6'51"W
OS Eastings: 392147
OS Northings: 173253
OS Grid: ST921732
Mapcode National: GBR 2SJ.D8F
Mapcode Global: VH96C.9MK0
Plus Code: 9C3VFV5P+76
Entry Name: 54 and 55, Market Place
Listing Date: 22 June 1978
Last Amended: 16 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1268010
English Heritage Legacy ID: 462321
Location: Chippenham, 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
CHIPPENHAM
ST9273SW MARKET PLACE
930-1/10/130 (North side)
22/06/78 Nos.54 AND 55
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET PLACE
(North side)
Nos.54 AND 55
The Shambles)
GV II
Also known as: Nos.54 AND 55 THE SHAMBLES.
Two shops on a corner site. Mid C19. Limestone ashlar,
concrete tile roof continuous with No 71 to the right (qv),
with wide eaves and moulded ridge stacks to party walls.
One-unit plan extending on the 1st floor over the passage to
the left.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window range. The facade of No.54,
facing north, has 6/6-pane sash windows and platbands between
floors. To the right of the ground floor is a semicircular
arch with chamfered rusticated voussoirs and keystone over a
passage leading the the Yelde Hall (qv). to the left is a
6-panel door and overlight under a hood on console brackets.
To the centre is a rectangular projecting shop window of
2 plate-glass panes, colonnettes, fascia moulded cornice and
sill. Above the glazing are fretted cast-iron panels and below
the word PURVEYORS is incised into the plinth.
The left return has one blind window to each upper floor and a
single-pane shop window similar to that at the front without
the pierced panels and supported by 3 plain fretted brackets.
No.55 facing north-east, of similar design, is one-window
range and cants forward from No.54 to meet the east side of
The Shambles. It has a 6/6-pane sash window to the 2nd floor,
a C19 plate-glass sash to the 1st floor and a C20 shop to the
ground floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: ST9214573253
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