Description

CALNE

ST9971 HIGH STREET
755-1/4/68 (East side)
19/05/50 No.8

GV II

Formerly known as: Hawkins HIGH STREET.
House and inn, now shop. Late C17, refronted and extended
early C18; further rear extension in early C19; altered
internally late C20. C19 rendered brick with stone dressings,
otherwise rendered rubble with squared, coursed limestone
rubble sides; brick stacks to right-hand and rear gables,
stone slate roof, with pantiles to the rear. 2-room parallel
plan with right-hand rear wing, extended twice.
2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. Early C19 shop front has
an ashlar stall riser beneath C20 plate-glass windows which
curve in to a left-hand doorway and panelled door, with heavy
ovolo-moulded timber doorposts, and a full-width bracketed
canopy; to the left a segmental-arched carriage opening
inserted between No.9 (qv).
Rusticated first-floor quoins, timber modillion cornice
gutter. Early C18 bolection-moulded architraves to early C19
6/6-pane sashes, and 2 C19 gabled dormers with casements.
Original lead downpipe and decorative hopper with wreath
flanked by figures.
Rear wing has brick gable and exposed C19 sawn purlin ends,
the carriage passage has timber joists and a horizontal
sliding sash in a blocked former side entrance; 2 further
ranges of different heights with wide timber lintels.
INTERIOR: includes a panelled ground-floor room in rear
extension with boxed out cornice; front ground floor has late
C20 inserted stair, partition walls removed.
HISTORICAL NOTE: forms a U-shaped plan with No.9 (qv),
suggesting a previous use as an inn.

Listing NGR: ST9974471073

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539538

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)