Sparrow Farmhouse and Dovecote Cottage Attached, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN14 (Grade II)

CHIPPENHAM WITHOUT FOWLSWICK LANE ST 87 NE 3/218 Sparrow Farmhouse and Dovecote Cottage attached

Farmhouse early and later C18, rubble stone with stone-tiled roofs. Original range one-and-a-half storeys with south end ashlar corner stack. Main east front with 2 dormer gables and casement windows under timber lintels, 3-light to right side, 2-light to left side, both floors and door to left. South end wall has flush cyma- moulded stone-mullion windows, single-light to attic, 2-light to first floor and 3-light to ground floor. To left a former barn converted in C20 with south side dormer gable and cyma-moulded stone-mullion windows. West end wall has plaque TMT. C20 stair tower in angle to rear of original range. Attached to north end of original range, 2 storey and attic later C18 range with coped north gable and end wall stack. To east front, a 3-light cyma- moulded mullion window, to north end a single-light attic window and renewed 2-light mullion window, to west side flush cyma-moulded doorcase, two 2-light cyma-moulded first floor windows and hipped dormer. A short C20 link at north west corner to ‘Dovecote Cottage’, dated 1714, rubble stone with Bridgewater tile roof and west end ashlar stack. One storey and attic with chamfered doorcase with datestone TMT 1714 over and two 2-light flush stopped cyma-moulded windows to south front. East end wall has 2-light recessed cyma-moulded window to attic and dove-openings over, west end wall has similar 2-light attic window, north wall has 2-light flush stopped cyma-moulded window.