Description

MALMESBURY

ST9386 ST JOHN'S BRIDGE 758-1/3/291 (North East side) 18/01/49 Nos.1 AND 3

GV II

Terrace of 3 houses, now attached pair. Early C19 incorporating part of C16 almshouses. Squared, coursed limestone rubble, No.3 rendered, formerly limewashed, with brick right-hand gable stack and ridge stacks to middle and left-hand unit, and stone slate roof. PLAN: single-depth. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; No.1 a 1-window range, No.3 a 3-window range. Left-hand doorways with plain timber canopies and C20 doors, and at the left-hand end a 4-centre arched through-passage with a small finial and C20 brick lining containing the left-hand entrance to St John's Court. Segmental-arched brick heads to 2/2-pane late C19 horned sashes; right-hand gable has small attic casements either side of stack. Rear has 3 first-floor casements. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the archway is a C19 replacement of the original entrance to St John's Court (qv).



Listing NGR: ST9352586939

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)