Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9174SE GREENWAY PARK
930-1/3/38 (East side)
Greystones

II

House. 1921. Built for Mr Rudman, Master of Eton College and a
collector. Squared limestone rubble with freestone plinth,
quoins and dressings, stone slate roof, hipped and swept at
eaves and valleys, stone stacks to returns and front right
wing.
STYLE: Eclectic Vernacular Revival, incorporating collected
architectural features.
PLAN: L-shaped with brick 2-storey gabled central porch and
rear service wing.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range plus a cross wing to the
right. The porch has a stone sundial finial, a Venetian window
to the front and a bull's-eye window to the left return of the
1st floor and an early C18 open pediment and moulded
architrave to a C20 door. It is flanked by 4-light
stone-mullioned windows to the 1st floor, a similar transomed
window to the right of the ground floor and a 4-light
timber-mullioned window to a canted bay with a hipped
stone-slated roof to the left.
The forward right wing has a large external stack to the
front, off-set at each stage with 2 sundials at the 1st-floor
level and paired diagonally-set square shafts. The right
return has 4-light stone-mullioned windows to the right of
both floors, a canted bay similar to that at the front and a
ball finial to the roof.
The left return has a square stack off-set at both stages
flanked by single-light windows.
The rear has a large hipped dormer to the centre and a smaller
one to the right, 3-light stone-mullioned windows to the right
of both floors and a flat-roofed 2-storey service wing to the
rest.
INTERIOR: many medieval and early C18 items are incorporated
including an oak beam and a Tudor-arched fireplace to the
central ground-floor room and full-height early C18 panelling
to the room to the left. High-quality C20 work includes a
cantilevered stone staircase, doors with wrought-iron hinges
and catches and elm floorboards.
The house is surrounded by formal gardens with clipped yew
hedges. A remarkable composition of its type, recalling the
contempory work of Blunden Shadbolt in the south-east using
items salvaged from early buildings.

Listing NGR: ST9173774360

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558443

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