Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW HIGH STREET
930-1/10/51 (North side)
22/06/78 Nos.22 AND 23

GV II

Two shops. Dated 1908. Limestone ashlar, slate roof. Mannerist
Classical style.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys; symmetrical 3-bay front. 12/2-pane sash
windows to the upper floors, (6/1 to the sides of the bays). 4
wide pilasters, which have small recessed oramental panels
with carved drops and cornices at the 4th floor, rise above a
modillion cornice and parapet. Moulded coping to the pilasters
and parapet. Over the central bay is a broken pediment with a
modillion cornice and cartouche-framed shield in the tympanum.
Below the modillion cornice each range has a full-height
flat-roofed canted bay with a cornice. Windows to the 4th
floor have aprons with guttae, aprons to the 3rd floor are
shaped, those to the 1st floors are lost to the C20 shop
fronts.
INTERIOR: not inpected.
Forms with No.21 (qv), a vigorously articulated example of
early C20 commercial architecture.

Listing NGR: ST9210473293

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558453

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)