Description

MALMESBURY

ST9387 OXFORD STREET
758-1/4/265 (South side)
01/07/76 No.5

GV II

House. Early C17, early C18 front range. Limestone rubble with
limestone dressings, formerly limewashed, brick right-hand
gable and rear and left-hand lateral stacks, with a pantile
roof to the front and rear cross-gabled range wing with stone
slates.
PLAN: L-shaped plan with left-hand rear range enclosing a
courtyard open to the W.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, cellar and attic; 2-window range. A left
of centre doorway has timber bracketed canopy, moulded ashlar
surround and glazed door, C20 shop fronts each side with
plate-glass, and early C18 paired first-floor 6/6-pane sashes
with ashlar surrounds and thick glazing bars, windowless to
the middle.
Rear range has gabled dormers each side, a blocked 3-light
oak-framed mullion window to the E with cyma mouldings, the W
side to the courtyard has timber lintels, with 3-light
first-floor mullion windows, and altered ground-floor
openings.
INTERIOR: details include in the rear wing a good C17
ground-floor fire surround with moulded 4-centred arch and
stops with 2 raised, chamfered bars; similar arched fire
surround on the first floor above; ground-floor gable C19
brick fireplace with cast-iron range with a right-hand
chamfered jamb; roof to the wing of 3 collar trusses, with an
extended collar truss between the dormers, and trenched
purlins; C18 brick fireplace in end gable with bread oven bay
to the left; splayed window reveals.
The cellar has a simple fireplace to the lateral stack and a
flagged floor; across the N end level with the back of the
front range is a canted wall.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the wing may formerly have had a gable to
street.

Listing NGR: ST9334887207

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559421

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)