8 High Street / Hawkins

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

CALNE

ST9971 HIGH STREET 755-1/4/68 (East side) 19/05/50 No.8

GV II

Formerly known as: Hawkins HIGH STREET. House and inn, now shop. Late C17, refronted and extended early C18; further rear extension in early C19; altered internally late C20. C19 rendered brick with stone dressings, otherwise rendered rubble with squared, coursed limestone rubble sides; brick stacks to right-hand and rear gables, stone slate roof, with pantiles to the rear. 2-room parallel plan with right-hand rear wing, extended twice. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. Early C19 shop front has an ashlar stall riser beneath C20 plate-glass windows which curve in to a left-hand doorway and panelled door, with heavy ovolo-moulded timber doorposts, and a full-width bracketed canopy; to the left a segmental-arched carriage opening inserted between No.9 (qv). Rusticated first-floor quoins, timber modillion cornice gutter. Early C18 bolection-moulded architraves to early C19 6/6-pane sashes, and 2 C19 gabled dormers with casements. Original lead downpipe and decorative hopper with wreath flanked by figures. Rear wing has brick gable and exposed C19 sawn purlin ends, the carriage passage has timber joists and a horizontal sliding sash in a blocked former side entrance; 2 further ranges of different heights with wide timber lintels. INTERIOR: includes a panelled ground-floor room in rear extension with boxed out cornice; front ground floor has late C20 inserted stair, partition walls removed. HISTORICAL NOTE: forms a U-shaped plan with No.9 (qv), suggesting a previous use as an inn.

Listing NGR: ST9974471073

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1485 IOE Records taken by David Nunn; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr David Nunn. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project