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2, 8 and 10, Kings Wall

A Grade II Listed Building in Malmesbury, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5811 / 51°34'52"N

Longitude: -2.097 / 2°5'49"W

OS Eastings: 393375

OS Northings: 186925

OS Grid: ST933869

Mapcode National: GBR 2QZ.YF4

Mapcode Global: VH95S.LJR7

Plus Code: 9C3VHWJ3+F6

Entry Name: 2, 8 and 10, Kings Wall

Listing Date: 18 January 1949

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1269309

English Heritage Legacy ID: 460889

ID on this website: 101269309

Location: Malmesbury, Wiltshire, SN16

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: Malmesbury

Built-Up Area: Malmesbury

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Church of England Parish: Malmesbury and Brokenborough

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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Description


MALMESBURY

ST9386 KINGS WALL 758-1/3/231 (South side) 18/01/49 Nos.2, 8 AND 10

GV II

Terrace of 5, now 3 houses. Mid C18. Limestone rubble, No.2 roughcast, others formerly limewashed, with rubble rear external lateral stacks and a stone slate roof. PLAN: single-room plan with rear outshuts, formerly with through-passages and side entrances between pairs. EXTERIOR: each 2 storeys; formerly 1-window range, now Nos 2 and 8 are 2-window range. No.2 is symmetrical with a half glazed door beneath a re-used C13 plate tracery window head with 2 trefoil arches and centre quatrefoil, and 2/2-pane horned sashes in exposed boxes; No.8 is symmetrical with a C20 boarded door, rendered lintels, and early C19 8/8-pane ground-floor and 4/8-pane first-floor sashes; No.10 has timber lintels to a left-hand boarded door and C19 casements with 4 horizontal bars each. Openings have irregular re-used ashlar jambs. Rear has 5 external stacks with offsets and water tables at eaves level, C18 brick flues, the centre and right of centre pair linked beneath the water tables; a first-floor casement to No.8, and ground-floor outshuts. INTERIOR: details include earlier and reset roof trusses, No.2 has a flagged former through-passage, with a left-hand front winder stair with stair door. An interesting planned row, with reused features including morticed lintels to front.



Listing NGR: ST9338486924

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