Description

MALMESBURY

ST9387 OXFORD STREET 758-1/4/265 (South side) 01/07/76 No.5

GV II

House. Early C17, early C18 front range. Limestone rubble with limestone dressings, formerly limewashed, brick right-hand gable and rear and left-hand lateral stacks, with a pantile roof to the front and rear cross-gabled range wing with stone slates. PLAN: L-shaped plan with left-hand rear range enclosing a courtyard open to the W. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, cellar and attic; 2-window range. A left of centre doorway has timber bracketed canopy, moulded ashlar surround and glazed door, C20 shop fronts each side with plate-glass, and early C18 paired first-floor 6/6-pane sashes with ashlar surrounds and thick glazing bars, windowless to the middle. Rear range has gabled dormers each side, a blocked 3-light oak-framed mullion window to the E with cyma mouldings, the W side to the courtyard has timber lintels, with 3-light first-floor mullion windows, and altered ground-floor openings. INTERIOR: details include in the rear wing a good C17 ground-floor fire surround with moulded 4-centred arch and stops with 2 raised, chamfered bars; similar arched fire surround on the first floor above; ground-floor gable C19 brick fireplace with cast-iron range with a right-hand chamfered jamb; roof to the wing of 3 collar trusses, with an extended collar truss between the dormers, and trenched purlins; C18 brick fireplace in end gable with bread oven bay to the left; splayed window reveals. The cellar has a simple fireplace to the lateral stack and a flagged floor; across the N end level with the back of the front range is a canted wall. HISTORICAL NOTE: the wing may formerly have had a gable to street.

Listing NGR: ST9334887207

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