Description

MALMESBURY

ST9387 HIGH STREET 758-1/4/146 (East side) 01/07/76 Nos.16 AND 18

GV II

Inn, now 2 houses and shops. Mid C16, divided c1809, later C19 shop fronts. Limestone rubble, with timber square framing refronted in brick early C19, brick stack to N of through-passage below ridge with a stone slate roof to the left and slate to the right. PLAN: U-shaped courtyard plan with a single-depth front range and parallel rear wings flanking through-passage. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. No.16 has a good mid C19 shop front with panelled pilasters and consoles to fascia and cornice, and horned 2/2-pane first-floor sashes, No.18 has a C20 shop front with plate-glass and a single 2/2-pane sash with exposed frame, and a central through-passage with exposed square framing and brick noggingg. N side of rear range has an attic 3-light ovolo-moulded mullion window; matching rear gables to the wings. INTERIOR: details of No.16 include a first-floor front room with left-hand Tudor-arched stone fire surround and chamfered beams, a timber stair in two sections with a door and winder stair to the attic. N wing of 2 storeys and attic has plank and muntin panelling partitions, chamfered beams with carved stops, some panelled cupboards, doors and door frames with old furniture; 3-bay roof with an extended collar truss between dormers carried at one end by 2 elaborately turned balusters, possibly from a former galleried courtyard of inn. No.18 altered. HISTORICAL NOTE: medieval inn on this site in 1540, still open in 1751, closed by 1809. Shop front of No.16 probably built for a druggist in occupation c1828-58.

Listing NGR: ST9333187161

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