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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17544339

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)