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Chippenham
Telephone kiosk, type K6. Designed 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Made by various contractors.
Cast iron. Square kiosk with domed roof. Unperforated crowns to top panels and margin glazing to windows and doors.
Eight pairs of late C18 or early C19 estate cottages, built for John Tharp, owner of Chippenham Park.
Painted local brick with half-hipped plain tile roofs. Tall square ridge stacks centrally positioned to each pair of local brown brick. One storey and attics with single storey outbuildings and shared passage linking the cottages with red pantile roofs. Each pair has two gabled dormer windows with casements and glazing bars.
Originally a farmhouse. Early C19.
Gault brick, plain tile roof with end stacks. Symmetrical two storeys with kitchen wing of one storey to left hand and balancing workshop wing to right hand. Sawtooth brick eaves cornice.
Three first floor flush framed, twelve-paned hung sash windows in cambered, gauged brick arches with stone cills. Central recessed doorway approached by three steps with six-panelled door and false, rectangular fanlight. Two flat-roofed canted bay windows with hung sashes. One hung sash window in segmental arch to left hand wing.
Stable block, late C17, built by Edward Russell (b.1653-d.1727) later Lord Orford.
House, early C18.
Local red brick with foundation courses of early buff brick. Slate roof and end stacks. Two storeys, symmetrical facade with C19 rear wing with slate roof an weather boarded extension with pantiles. Three original wooden framed casement windows with lattice lights in segmental arches at first floor. Two similar, three light ground floor windows in flat arches with shutters. C19, six panelled door in wooden architrave.
Garden wall to left and right hand curved in plan from house to street boundary.
Barn, C15 and later.
Fine timber-frame of eight 'bays' with re-used timber posts, tie beams and aisle ties dating from C15. Weather boarded with local brick plinth, corrugated iron half-hipped roof. Two cross entries. Jowelled posts and tie beams in six trusses display trenches for passing braces secured by lap joints to tie beams; some straight tension braces in original positions, and replacement braces in lieu of passing braces. Arcade plates and aisle plates C16, aisle wall to north-west raised. Butt-purlin roof C17.
Dovecote, C18 recently restored.
Local brown brick, hipped slate roof with arched, wooden octagonal flight lantern. Square plan with door facing south-east. Dentil brick cornice. North-east wall rebuilt; brick pigeon holes complete on three sides and king post, incomplete, in situ.
Farmhouse dated 1673 on gable wall recently covered.
- Tombstone dated 1727 with hour glass and skull flanking winged cherub.
- Tombstone with swags and cherub with raised oval plaque and weathered inscription. C18
- Tablet at head of low table tomb with foot stone, tablet decorated by two cherubs with Skull. C18
- Tombstone dated 1735, rectangular plaque with two cherubs and skull. Tombstone at head of table tomb with foot stone.
- Tombstone datd 1735, with two cherubs and skull.





