Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW ST MARY STREET 930-1/10/196 (East side) 25/04/50 No.52 The Woodhouse

GV II*

House. C15, restored 1991. Timber-framed; rear wing partly rebuilt in limestone rubble in late C16/early C17; steep-pitched double-Roman tile roof with brick stacks. PLAN: L-shaped C15 plan, with hall to front and probable parlour wing to rear; floor inserted to hall in late C16/early C17, when stacks inserted to rear of hall and rear wing; C18 stack to front right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. Forward frames to early/mid C18 sash windows with thick glazing bars, 9/9 panes to the 1st floor and 3 of 6/6 panes to the ground floor which are paired to the centre, one to the right. C19 or C20 6-panelled door to the right. Morticing to studs shows that there were originally 2 6-light windows with wooden tracery; front was originally jettied. Rear wing includes late C16/early C17 stone-mullioned ovolo-moulded windows and C19 stone and brick extension to rear. INTERIOR: access not possible on survey but known to include hall roof with 2 tiers of butt purlins and chamfered windbraces, with evidence of smoke blackening to north (left) bay; attached polygonal shaft to scissor-braced truss, flanked by collar trusses and plain crown-post to north; mortices for downswinging braces. Rear wing has 4 similar scissor trusses. Late C16/early C17 1st-floor front fireplace with chamfered wood bressumer and chamfered stone jambs; plank and muntin partition of same date to ground floor. Hall probably originally extended further to north (left). (Slocombe P: Wiltshire Buildings Record: 1991-).

Listing NGR: ST9233973199

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)