Description

MALMESBURY

ST9387 HIGH STREET
758-1/4/157 (East side)
01/07/76 No.42

GV II

House, then pair of shops, now in one occupation. Late C18
with late C19 and C20 shop fronts. Limestone rubble and
dressings with a truncated brick stack and stone slate roof.
PLAN: U-shaped with single-depth front and rear wings to a
through-passage.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 2:2-window range. Former No.40,
half the width of No.42, has a full-width shop front has thin
mullions to plate-glass windows, consoles to a fascia, with
recessed right-hand doorway with a good C18 fanlight and
4-panel door, and recessed shop window between the windows;
rendered lintels to 2/2-pane first-floor sashes in exposed
boxes, and cambered heads to 2 casement dormers. No.42 to the
right has a full-width shop front, quoins above and a plain
fascia, with widely-spaced windows with rendered lintels to
8/8-pane sashes in exposed sashes. Good cast-iron hopper with
lion head, decorative downpipe and full-width gutter with an
ivy leaf pattern.
INTERIOR: details include a winder stair over the
through-passage, and a first-floor front room with a dividing
elliptical arch.

Listing NGR: ST9335987068

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559522

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)