Latitude: 51.5824 / 51°34'56"N
Longitude: -2.0973 / 2°5'50"W
OS Eastings: 393353
OS Northings: 187065
OS Grid: ST933870
Mapcode National: GBR 2QZ.QKB
Mapcode Global: VH95S.LHL8
Plus Code: 9C3VHWJ3+X3
Entry Name: 40 and 42 High Street
Listing Date: 1 July 1976
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1269409
English Heritage Legacy ID: 460821
ID on this website: 101269409
Location: Malmesbury, Wiltshire, SN16
County: Wiltshire
Civil Parish: Malmesbury
Built-Up Area: Malmesbury
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire
Church of England Parish: Malmesbury and Brokenborough
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
Tagged with: Building
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ST9387
758-1/4/157
MALMESBURY
HIGH STREET (east side)
Nos. 40 and 42
(Formerly listed as No.42 )
01/07/76
GV
II
House, then pair of shops, in one occupation (at time of 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: two storeys and attic; 2:2-window range. 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 four-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 two 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
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