Hardenhuish House

Heritage listing

Details CHIPPENHAM ST97SW HARDENHUISH LANE 930-1/1/41 Hardenhuish House (Chippenham 22/06/78 Grammar School) II* Manor house, now a school. Late C18, with c1829 alterations including a portico by Sir John Soane. Limestone ashlar with slate roofs hipped to the front, gabled to the rear of rear wings; moulded ashlar stacks to the rear and ridges of wings. STYLE: Palladian, portico in Classical style. PLAN: double-depth central stair-hall plan with rear wings and later wings to the left. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 5-bay front with pedimented 3-bay centre stepped forward; a table, perhaps for an urn, surmounts a pediment over a modillion cornice, platband and sill band to the 1st floor. Moulded architraves to the upper floor windows; 3/6-pane sashes to the 2nd floor, 3 pedimented 6/6-pane sashes to the 1st floor centre, flanked by 6/6-pane sashes with floating cornices. Steps up to a semicircular prostyle portico of 4 Ionic columns supporting an entablature with a dentilled cornice, flanked by 6/6-pane sash windows with chamfered architraves. Both returns have full-height splayed bays with windows similar to the front. A mid C19 service block to the left has a hipped roof to a splayed front with 6/6-pane sash windows flanked by 4/4-pane sashes; the left return is roughcast with freestone dressings to the windows and a moulded eaves cornice. The service block is connected to the main house by a mid/late C19 dining room which has 3 large 6/6-pane sash windows. The splayed rear right return was formerly covered by a conservatory (probably 1829), it has full-height 9/9-pane sash windows; to the rear right corner are 2 octagonal rooms with hipped lead roofs, that to the rear with a ball finial. A block to the rear has a hipped roof with a lantern. INTERIOR: the entrance ha

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.