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Bank House

A Grade II Listed Building in Chippenham, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.459 / 51°27'32"N

Longitude: -2.1187 / 2°7'7"W

OS Eastings: 391849

OS Northings: 173345

OS Grid: ST918733

Mapcode National: GBR 1R5.K4V

Mapcode Global: VH96C.7L8C

Plus Code: 9C3VFV5J+JG

Entry Name: Bank House

Listing Date: 22 June 1978

Last Amended: 16 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1268168

English Heritage Legacy ID: 462178

ID on this website: 101268168

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

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Description



CHIPPENHAM

ST9173SE BATH ROAD
930-1/9/1 (North side)
22/06/78 Bank House
(Formerly Listed as:
BATH ROAD
Nestle's Office)

II

Offices. c1873. Squared, coursed limestone rubble with
freestone dressings, slate roof with central ashlar ridge
stack. 2-room central-entry plan with rear wing.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 3-window range.
The moulded stack has a continuous coping above the flues;
gabled dormers with wide bracketed eaves and C20 2-light
casement windows; wide eaves, swept and bracketed with
tie-beam, archbraces, pendants and finial to the bargeboards
of the gable ends; chamfered rusticated quoins; rusticated
freestone architraves to plate-glass sash windows; the right
return has a single-storey canted bay with a hipped freestone
roof, one sash window to the 1st floor and an oculus to the
apex; C20 steps and ramp to a prostyle portico with a
balustraded parapet over square columns, paired to the front;
double doors with bolection moulding to small panels.
INTERIOR: not inspected but noted as having half-panelled
rooms and a marble fireplace.
Probably built c1873 and erected as offices to the Nestle's
Warehouse and Factory (qv).


Listing NGR: ST9190073350

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