Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW MARKET PLACE
930-1/10/113 (North side)
25/04/50 No.48

GV II

Part of an inn, now offices. C16, refronted early C18. Painted
limestone ashlar to the front, timber-framed rear wing with
brick nogging, steep-pitched double-Roman tile roof hipped to
the front. Narrow 2-unit plan with rear wing making L-plan.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys; 3-window range. A cornice returned to the
left, is at the top of the parapet wall. Moulded architraves
to the windows; small square C20 windows to the 4th floor,
thick glazing bars and crown glass to early C18 6-over-6-pane
sash windows of the 2nd and 1st floors, C20 shop to the ground
floor.
The rear wing is a separate block connected by a passage. The
slate roof is hipped to the front, gabled to the timber-framed
back. C18 paired 6/6-pane sash windows to the 1st floor are
set in an architrave to a former stone-mullioned window.
INTERIOR: the room to the 1st floor has a chamfered crossbeam;
a box cornice; full-height unpainted raised-and-fielded
panelling; ovolo moulded glazing bars, crown glass, panelled
reveals and window seats below the windows. To the rear wall
is a stone cyma-moulded Tudor-arched fireplace with shields in
the spandrels. It is flanked by doors with 2
raised-and-fielded panels, LH-hinges and 4-pane overlights. A
cupboard is on the right and the entrance to a passage (which
has a C17 panelled door to a cupboard on the right), to the
rear wing on the left. To the right of the passage, against
the chimney-breast, is a C17 cupboard door with a pierced
diamond in the panelling, The 2nd floor of rear wing has a
slightly chamfered beam with triangular stops and an open fire
with sunk spandrels. The ground floor retains flagstones, now
carpeted.
HISTORY: the remodelled building was formerly part of the
White Hart Inn, known as Ye Harte in 1548 when it probably
extended across the sites of Nos 44 to 48 Market Place (qv).
Oliver Cromwell and Robert Peel are Known to have stayed here.
The importance of the inn declined with the building of the
railway and it was sold for private purposes in 1850.
One of a group of buildings with fine C18 fronts, including
Nos 44, 45, 46 and 47 (qv).
(Chamberlain, Joseph A: Chippenham: Chippenham: 1976-: 170;
The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Wiltshire:
London: 169).

Listing NGR: ST9214873287

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558397

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