Description

MALMESBURY

ST9386 HIGH STREET
758-1/3/204 (South side)
06/08/74 No.133
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(South side)
Nos.87-103, 107, 113-137 (Odd))

GV II

House and inn, now one house. Early C17, refronted and
extended to rear mid C18. Limestone rubble, formerly
roughcast, brick left-hand gable and rear lateral stacks, and
stone slate roof.
Single-depth plan with rear gabled ranges.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 2-window range. A parapeted
front with timber lintels, on the ground-floor extending
across central doorways, the left-hand one blocked, the
right-hand one with a boarded door; outer windows, the
left-hand one a C20 casement, the right-hand one a 2/2-pane
horned sash, and altered C18 first-floor 3-light casements
with stays; single C20 dormer. Quoins to left-hand end to
beneath parapet, and full-width plinth crossing blocked
doorway.
Rear ranges, to the E with C20 casements and a small gable
loop, and a long W range with a steep roof pitch.
INTERIOR: details include a left-hand rear C17 fireplace with
splayed reveals, chamfered, cambered bressumer, and a tall
curved left-hand niche, with a covered left-hand end
fireplace; chamfered ceiling beams, first-floor left-hand end
fireplace; roof with collar trusses, one in each end gable,
the left-hand one with a cambered collar, and rear left-hand
range above partly truncated stack.
HISTORICAL NOTE: trusses in each end and fireplace set to the
left end suggest a previously longer extent to the original
C17 building.

Listing NGR: ST9348186917

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559443

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