Description

MALMESBURY

ST9387 HIGH STREET
758-1/4/139 (West side)
01/07/76 No.5

GV II

House, now shop. Late C17 with earlier origins, refronted
mid/late C19. Limestone rubble with brick window jambs,
coursed, squared limestone rear, with a diagonally-set
left-hand stack now part of No.7 (qv), and a stone slate roof.
PLAN: 2-room right-angle plan with a right-hand central stair.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; 1-window range. A late C19 shop
front with panelled jambs, consoles and fascia, and
plate-glass windows. 2/2-pane horned sashes beneath wide
timber lintels, and brick jambs with straight joints forming
infill of wider window spaces; gabled casement dormer.
INTERIOR: details include chamfered stopped beams, plank and
muntin panelling divisions on ground and first floors by the
winder stair, with an early C17 right-hand truss with a plated
yoke set in the raised C19 attic gable.
A notable survival of a late C17 town house, retaining its
original plan form.

Listing NGR: ST9329487203

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559504

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Old House Care and Repair