Description

MALMESBURY

ST9387 MARKET CROSS 758-1/4/253 (East side) 18/01/49 Old Brewery House and attached gateway, walls, piers and railings

GV II*

House, additional house at W end, now one. Dated 1672, early C18 addition, E end refaced late C18. MATERIALS: roughcast with quoins to coursed limestone rubble, brick ridge and right-hand gable stacks and a stone slate roof. PLAN: double-depth. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2:3:3-window range. Right-hand house has parapeted facade, with a left-hand doorway with moulded surround and carved brackets to hood and 6-panel door with the top pair glazed, moulded surrounds to windows with 6/9-pane sashes with fine bars, extending low on the ground floor. Rubble right-hand gable has a date stone in the stack inscribed: MAY/1672/S/T/A, possibly a marriage date, with a small low casement and first-floor right-hand 6/6-pane sash. W addition set back slightly with a party wall stack, a left of centre doorway has bracketed stone canopy, and 6-panel door, ashlar surrounds to 6/9-pane sashes, the right-hand first-floor pair lower with 10/10-pane casements and small cornices, with a small right-hand ground-floor window; the left gable has a 4/8-pane attic sash, with a rear outshut. Rear right-hand brick early C19 range with slate roof. Between the two fronts a C18 lead hopper and downpipe. INTERIOR: details include a winder stair down to a right-hand end segmental-vaulted cellar with flagged floor; front right-hand room with panelling, boxed out cornice and original carved fireplace with basket grate. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached gateway with a wrought-iron overthrow arch and lantern between the principal house, and a gate with rusticated ashlar piers and spear-headed iron gates and railings to the entrance from the street; L-shaped wall extends from NE corner to enclose garden to E. HISTORICAL NOTE: known as the Hop or Pumphouse in the late C18.

Listing NGR: ST9334887290

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)