Description

MALMESBURY

ST9386 HIGH STREET 758-1/3/204 (South side) 06/08/74 No.133 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (South side) Nos.87-103, 107, 113-137 (Odd))

GV II

House and inn, now one house. Early C17, refronted and extended to rear mid C18. Limestone rubble, formerly roughcast, brick left-hand gable and rear lateral stacks, and stone slate roof. Single-depth plan with rear gabled ranges. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 2-window range. A parapeted front with timber lintels, on the ground-floor extending across central doorways, the left-hand one blocked, the right-hand one with a boarded door; outer windows, the left-hand one a C20 casement, the right-hand one a 2/2-pane horned sash, and altered C18 first-floor 3-light casements with stays; single C20 dormer. Quoins to left-hand end to beneath parapet, and full-width plinth crossing blocked doorway. Rear ranges, to the E with C20 casements and a small gable loop, and a long W range with a steep roof pitch. INTERIOR: details include a left-hand rear C17 fireplace with splayed reveals, chamfered, cambered bressumer, and a tall curved left-hand niche, with a covered left-hand end fireplace; chamfered ceiling beams, first-floor left-hand end fireplace; roof with collar trusses, one in each end gable, the left-hand one with a cambered collar, and rear left-hand range above partly truncated stack. HISTORICAL NOTE: trusses in each end and fireplace set to the left end suggest a previously longer extent to the original C17 building.



Listing NGR: ST9348186917

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)