Description

SU 08 SE WOOTTON BASSETT HIGH STREET
(north west side)

11/127 No. 27

GV II

House, now shop with office over. C16 fragments and late C18
stone, with applied timber framing. C20 tiled roof with 1 dormer
of 1937. 2-storey and cellar, 2 bays, entrance in left, wider bay.
Stacks at centre and gable. C20 shopfront. Timber casement
windows to first floor. Building originally had rear open hall at
right angles to High Street with fire blackened timbers. Remains
of 2 cruck trusses with saddle apex and one surviving windbrace.
Fire beams at ground floor level, in C18 front block. (1979 report
by RCHM in NMR).

Listing NGR: SU0666782530

Selected Sources

• Mercer, Eric, English Vernacular Houses, (1975)

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