Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9173SE BATH ROAD 930-1/9/4 (South side) 25/04/50 The Ivy Longhouse and The Ivy Stables (Formerly Listed as: BATH ROAD The Ivy)

GV II*

Service wing with dovecot and stables to Ivy House (qv), both are now dwellings. C17, remodelled early C18. Limestone ashlar, stone slate roof hipped to the right end of the stables, moulded ashlar ridge stacks to the left of the service wing with a bellcote between. The service wing is 3-unit plan; the stables, continuing to the right, are sub-divided. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; the service wing is symmetrical 7-window range. 7-bay front with rusticated quoins to central pedimented bay and to entrance bays in centre of each flanking range. One bay to the left is now part of The Ivy West Wing (qv). The Ivy Longhouse and The Ivy Stables are each 3-window range. Cornice and parapet to the front, platband and parapet to the rear. The central range and those inside of left and right are stepped slightly forward with chamfered rusticated quoins. Raised surrounds and roll-edge stone-mullioned leaded windows; those to the the 1st floor have 3-lights to the centre under a pediment, flanked by 2-light windows. The central ground-floor Venetian window is flanked by 2-light windows with a semicircular arch to each light and moulded imposts. The 2 projecting side bays have a raised surround with keystone and imposts to semicircular-arched doorways with radial fanlights. Rear includes C17 moulded stone mullioned windows with thick glazing bars to early C18 sashes. INTERIOR: stone-flagged floors to the ground floor, some wide oak boards to the upper floors. A through-passage to the inside left has double doors approx 3m tall with C18 hinges, locks, bolts, chain, etc. The room to the left of the passage, the former servants' hall, has a stone segmental arch to an open fire which is flanked by C18 cupboards with 3-panelled doors. The room to the right of the passage has a wide segmental arch to an open fire backing onto the passage with a segmental-arched recess to the left, possibly a former bread oven. Against the right-hand wall is a large C19 dresser. The room to the far right (at the centre of the block in the pedimented range), is now a C20 stairwell. This range was formerly a dovecote and the 1st-floor walls are lined with angled ashlar recesses. 1st-floor rooms to the left have C18 edge-roll-moulded stone fireplaces. Evidence of C18 alterations are visible in the oak-boarded attic. The C17 3-bay tie-beam roof has threaded purlins to the front which have been cut to accommodate the gable behind the C18 pediment. Other purlins are trenched, the ridge is in notch. (Chamberlain, Joseph A: Chippenham: Chippenham: 1976-: 126; Country Life Magazine.: Jackson-Stopps, Gervase: Country Life September 3 1992).

Listing NGR: ST9169773201

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