The Malthouse
THE MALTHOUSE, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199090
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- The Malthouse
- Statutory Address:
- THE MALTHOUSE, MARKET PLACE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199090
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Malthouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MALTHOUSE, MARKET PLACE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE MALTHOUSE, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Castle Combe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 84232 77197
Details
CASTLE COMBE MARKET PLACE ST 8477 (east side) 6/118 The Malthouse (formerly listed as Malt House and 20.12.60 House adjoining to south west)
GV II
Two houses, now hostel, C16 to early C17 and earlier C18. Right side: earlier C18 front, C16 to early C17 rear. Front, squared rubble stone with ashlar dressings and stone tile roof. 2-storey, double fronted. Flush quoins, raised plinth band and coved eaves cornice. 2 windows each floor, 12-pane thick glazing bar sashes in moulded architraves. Central door in moulded architrave with pediment on brackets over. To rear, a timber framed and plastered wing, jettied to first floor and to double gable above. Small moulded single light on left end of south wall. Renewed gable end windows. Left side: early C17 rubble stone with stone tiled roof, small north end stack and south end stack. Two-and-a-half storeys. Front has large gable to left and flush cyma-moulded mullion windows of C18 type, 2-light with hoodmould to attic, two 2-lights under single dripstone to first floor below and one 2-light to first floor to right of gabled section and ground floor symmetrical across whole front with 3-light windows each side of door in flush moulded doorcase with open pediment on brackets over. Continuous dripmould across, broken only for pediment. At north end is chimney gable with exposed tie-beam and collar truss and wall posts below. To rear: one storey and basement range with C20 door and bead-moulded windows, possibly converted malthouse, a Cl9 open 3- bay cartshed with brick piers and a rubble stone barn with east end saddlestone and finial and north side cart entrance with upper windows each side. Interior obscured by subdivision.
Listing NGR: ST8423277197
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 317208
- 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.
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