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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559426

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas