Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9173SE BATH ROAD
930-1/9/5 (South side)
25/04/50 The Ivy and The Ivy West Wing
(Formerly Listed as:
BATH ROAD
The Ivy)

GV I

Manor House, now 2 dwellings. Dated 1728 with some C17
fragments. Built for John Norris. Limestone ashlar north and
east facades, squared rubblestone with freestone dressings to
the rear; stone slate roof hipped to the rear; moulded ashlar
stacks with paired shafts to ridges and former gable ends.
Baroque style. H-shaped plan with service wing to the west,
now separate dwellings (The Ivy Longhouse and The Ivy Stables
(qqv)).
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics and basement; symmmetrical
7-window range, i.e. 2-windows to outer wings flanking
recessed 3-window range. A cornice and parapet encircle the
building, the cornice is dentilled and the parapet balustraded
to the front.
The projecting front 2-window range wings have banded
rusticated quoins topped by urn finials from which the parapet
sweeps up to segmental pediments. 6/6-pane sash windows. 2
dormers with segmental heads, windows to the gable attics have
thick glazing bars, raised surrounds with keystones and
moulded imposts. Moulded architraves, those to the 1st-floor
have shaped aprons, ground-floor windows have cornices and
aprons, those flanking the door have semicircular arches.
The central bay, stepped slightly forward, is flanked by
pilasters supporting an open pediment and tall parapet with
shaped raised and fielded panels, a cornice and blocking
course with urn finials to sides and centre. The tympanum has
a recessed semicircular-arched panel with a mask keystone and
carving over the 1st-floor window.
Mid C19 half-glazed double doors with margin panes,
semi-elliptical radial fanlight, moulded archivolt, imposts
and mask keystone, are set in a pedimented doorcase with
paired engaged Ionic columns supporting a pulvinated frieze
and dentilled cornice.
The quoins of the projecting side wings are crowned by urns,
the wall sweeps up to support full-width segmental-arched
pediments over semicircular-arched attic windows with
keystones and moulded imposts. Lead rainwater heads and
downpipes with a raised ivy leaf are dated 1728.
The east facade has 2 gables to the former building rising
behind the parapet, slightly projecting central range with a
semicircular-arched window with mask keystone and moulded
imposts over a pedimented window which is flanked by
single-storey splayed bay windows with parapets (added in
1758).
The rear, south garden front has gabled dormers to the hipped
wings and centre. The projecting wings are full-height canted
bays with moulded architraves and bracketed sills to windows.
9/9-pane sash windows to the 3-window range central block. The
1st-floor windows have semicircular arches, keystones and
continuous impost and sills. The ground-floor windows have
segmental heads flanking a shell hood on brackets.
INTERIOR: includes large diagonally-paved, panelled entrance
hall with a modillion cornice, 2 elaborate stone
chimney-pieces, an open-well, open-string staircase with
turned balusters and swept hand and dado rail. The drawing
room has full-height bolection-moulded panels; paired, fluted
Corinthian pilasters flanking a circular panel over an
elaborate fireplace with Corinthian columns and a mask centre
piece.
HISTORY: dated 1728 and built for John Norris, lawyer and MP
for the borough in 1713. C18 work represents remodelling of an
early C17 house; restored 1981 by Julian Bannerman.
Possible architects for the house include John Strahan,
William Halfpenny, William Killigrew or Thomas Greenway.
(Country Life Magazine.: Jackson-Stopps, Gervase: The Ivy,
Chippenham (September 3 and 10 1992): 66).

Listing NGR: ST9173173199

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17529816

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)