Description

TL 66 NE CHIPPENHAM CHIPPENHAM PARK

6/63 The Hall

GV II

Country House, built about 1886, Queen Anne revival, for William
Montague Tharp on the original site of the early C17 mansion and
incorporating the fabric of two later C17 and C18 houses.
Architect unknown. The original house survives in the basement
foundations and possibly much of the fabric of the great hall is
cased in the north-east wing. Lord Orford rebuilt part of the
house which is described in detail by Ceilia Fiennes after her
visit in 1698. The service wing to the south-west, contemporary
with the stable block is of this date. The rear wall of the
main range of the present building could however belong to the
hunting lodge built by John Tharp c.1795, on the site of the mid
C17 long gallery described by John Evelyn in 1669. South-east
garden facade; red brick with limestone dressings; slate roofs.
Symmetrical two storeys with attics and basements. Two tall,
paired stacks with moulded stone strings and three rear stacks.
Three shaped attic gables each with triangular pediments and
stone finials, central gable smaller. Deep egg and dart moulded
stone cornice. Two attic windows, and three first floor
casement windows with transomes in flat gauged brick arches with
slender stone key blocks. Parapetted bay windows with similar
casements flank garden entrance. Wings to right and left hand
are single storeyed additions repeating details of house, built
c.1930, architect Paul Phipps. Other alterations also include
the remodelling of the courtyard entrance. Two wings flanking
courtyard in rear elevation, both of seven 'bays'. Local
red/brown brick, slate roofs. Wing to south-west two storeys
with attics, rebuilt parapet gables and north-west wall rebuilt
with C19 casement windows in original openings with segmental
red gauged brick arches, band between floors and stone quoins to
first four 'bays'. Ridge stack. North-east wing, two storeys
possibly reduced in height with an added C19 'bay' to north-west
has C19 replacement windows. Facade to north-east wing cased in
C19 red brick with two pedimented side stacks. Interior details
of the C17 houses survive in panelling with light bolection
moulding, and eight-panelled doors, some very finely carved
details incorporated in the C19 hall chimney piece, and turned
balusters, re-used in the entrance hall balustrade.

Estate map. 1712 for Lord Orford. C.R.O.
Morris C. Ceilia Fiennes, 1685-1712, pp.140-1, 1982
Barber R W. History of Chippenham, 1897
John Evelyn's Diaries, 1669
Spufford M. A Cambridgeshire Community. 1965
Architectural Drawings. Paul Phipps, C.R.O.
Pevsner. Buildings in England, p.323
O S Maps. 1885, 1903
Taylor C. The Cambridgeshire Landscape, p.167, 1973

Listing NGR: TL6644769318

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Chippenham Park at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q25171365

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