40 King Street

40 King Street, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6HF

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Overview

An early-C19 house, with C19 and C20 alterations and additions.The late-C20 conservatory to the rear is excluded from the listing. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1194236
Date first listed:: 13-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: 40 King Street
Statutory Address:: 40 King Street, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6HF

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1194236
Date first listed:: 13-Feb-1985
Date of most recent amendment:: 23-Jan-2014
List Entry Name:: 40 King Street
Statutory Address 1:: 40 King Street, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6HF

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 40 King Street, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6HF

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Melksham
National Grid Reference:: ST9044263427

Summary

An early-C19 house, with C19 and C20 alterations and additions.

The late-C20 conservatory to the rear is excluded from the listing.

Reasons for Designation

40 King Street, an early-C19 town house with C19 and C20 alterations and additions is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architectural interest: as a good example of a well-composed early-C19 town house; * Interior: the original plan form remains legible and there are good-quality fixtures and fittings throughout, including joinery, fireplaces and cornices.

History

King Street is one of the historic streets of Melksham and runs in a southerly direction from the market square. Melksham, a medieval market town, was focused around the cloth trade from the C14 until the early-C19, when it enjoyed a brief period of prosperity as a spa town. 40 King Street was built in the early-C19, as a single-depth, three-bay house. A two-storey extension was added to the rear of the house in the later C19. There is a further C19 single-storey addition to the rear. A conservatory was added to the rear in the late-C20.

Details

MATERIALS: constructed of squared rubble stone laid to course, with ashlar dressings. It has a Welsh slate tile roof with stone coped verges and ashlar stacks with moulded capping.

PLAN: a single-depth house with a central hallway and a room to either side. The rear extension provides a continuation of the hallway with a heated room to the south which provides access to the single-storey range to the rear, and a room to the north which has been divided into two.

EXTERIOR: the principal elevation (east) of the two-storey house is of three bays with a gable end stack with moulded capping to the north. The central, six-panel, entrance door has a rectangular fanlight above with intersecting tracery, beneath a stone open triangular pediment supported on brackets. To either side of the entrance is a six-over-six sash window with a plain ashlar architrave and stone cill. There are three matching sash windows to the first floor. To the rear (west) elevation there are two dormer windows with hipped roofs and a lateral chimney stack with a brick shaft. The ground and first floors are concealed by a two-storey extension of coursed rubble stone with a Welsh slate roof. To the ground floor are two top-hung, casement windows with glazing bars and a chamfered stone doorcase to the right, and three, top-hung, casement windows to the first floor. To the left is a single-storey range with a gabled roof. To its north side is a round window and a large rectangular window with plate glass.

INTERIOR: the entrance door leads to the hallway with a principal room to either side. The room to the right (north) has a plain stone fireplace with slight chamfering (the grate has been removed) and later applied timbers to the chimney breast. There is chamfered ceiling beam with no stops. The room to the left (south) of the hall has an early-C19 stone fireplace with ovolo moulding and square corner blocks with a cast-iron grate. Both rooms have decorative cornicing with foliate detailing, and the architraves to the doorways are moulded and have square corner blocks with a floral motif. There are four-panel doors throughout. The windows have moulded architraves and retain their window shutters. The C19 extension to the rear includes a room to the south with a tall, open fireplace. There is similar fireplace with a bread oven to the rear range which is accessed from this room. Both fireplaces have plain ashlar surrounds. The C19 staircase has square stick balusters, a moulded handrail and turned newel posts. To the two first-floor bedrooms at the front of the house are C19 cast-iron fireplaces, one within a plain stone surround. The staircase to the attic rooms has a plain handrail and appears to be a later insertion. The roof structure is partially visible to these rooms and comprises C19 principal rafters with trenched purlins.

The late-C20 conservatory to the rear is not of interest and is therefore excluded from the listing.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 314339
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

The listed building is shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’), structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building (save those coloured blue on the map) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.