Description

CALNE

ST9970 KINGSBURY STREET
755-1/5/79 (South side)
08/07/76 No.1

GV II

Pair of attached houses, altered and made into one. Late C17
or early C18, later C18 wing to rear; altered late C20.
Coursed limestone rubble with brick gable and ridge stacks,
pantile roof. L-shaped plan with later C18 wing facing Church
Street.
2-storey, 2-window range to Kingsbury Street, which includes
right-hand gable end of earlier 2-storeys-and-attic range.
Central recessed door with panelled door, and timber lintels
to paired ground-floor 2/2-pane sashes, and 3-light casements
above.
Right-hand return to Church Street has a low central doorway
with chamfered frame, timber lintels to varied late C19 and
C20 fenestration, including wide first- and second-floor
4-light casement windows. Blocked left-hand first-floor
window. A straight joint to a right-hand C19 2-storey lean-to.
INTERIOR: details of Kingsbury Street range include 3 inch
chamfer ground-floor beams, an original timber winder stair to
the rear of the left-hand fireplace, with a first-floor
3-plank door with strap hinges, and 3-bay roof with some
original tenoned purlins. From the roof is visible one tie
beam end and rafters of the later roof to the Church Street
range, which has late C18 trusses, a chamfered axial
first-floor beam and altered stairs.

Listing NGR: ST9987070859

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560989

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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