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Wiltshire County Council Offices, County and Magistrates Court

A Grade II Listed Building in Chippenham, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4575 / 51°27'26"N

Longitude: -2.1144 / 2°6'51"W

OS Eastings: 392149

OS Northings: 173174

OS Grid: ST921731

Mapcode National: GBR 2SJ.D8P

Mapcode Global: VH96C.9MKK

Plus Code: 9C3VFV4P+X7

Entry Name: Wiltshire County Council Offices, County and Magistrates Court

Listing Date: 22 June 1978

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1268062

English Heritage Legacy ID: 462288

Also known as: former County Council Offices, County And Magistrates Court

ID on this website: 101268062

Location: Gladstone Parade, 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

Tagged with: Architectural structure Office building Courthouse Museum building

Description


CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW MARKET PLACE 930-1/10/92 (West side) 22/06/78 Nos.9 AND 10 Wiltshire County Council Offices, County and Magistrates' Court

GV II

House, now county offices. c1840. Limestone ashlar facade, rubblestone to the rear with brick architraves to the rear wing, slate mansard roof with ashlar slacks to right of centre and rear wing. Double-depth plan with late C19 rear wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics and basement; 4-window range. Coped gable ends and parapet, platband and plinth. The original pedimented Tuscan doorcase, now a window, was to the left of centre. It is flanked on the ground floor by tripartite windows set in semi-elliptical recesses with roundels to the keystones, now with late C19 plate-glass sashes. Above the door a semicircular-arched 6/6-pane sash window is flanked by similar Venetian windows with another to the far right over a wide semicircular-arched carriage entrance (now the door). The arch has roll-edge moulding to the intrados and Regency-style iron gates probably C20. Hipped dormers with 2-light casement windows over the Venetian windows, single-light over the original door. INTERIOR: the right-hand ground-floor room between the original entrance and the carriage entrance, possibly a former dining room, has a high skirting board; an elaborate cornice; a recess to the rear, probably for a sideboard, flanked by Corinthian columns; and reeded moulding to entrance hall, now part of the room, has a cornice stopped behind a shallow panelled arch on corbels to the former stairwell.

Listing NGR: ST9214573168

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