7 AND 8, HIGH STREET

7 AND 8, HIGH STREET

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Explore this list entry

Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1258978
Date first listed:
19-Mar-1962
List Entry Name:
7 AND 8, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
7 AND 8, HIGH STREET
User submitted image
Contributed by Lydia Hart This photo may not represent the current condition of the site. Over 400,000 images and stories have been added to the Missing Pieces Project so far. Share your story.
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places. 

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

Icon Buildings
Icon Scheduled monuments
Icon Parks and gardens
Icon Battlefields
Icon Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.
Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.
Date:
2000-10-19
Reference:
IOE01/02575/17
Rights:
© Gill Cardy. Source: Historic England Archive

Local Heritage Hub

Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.

Discover more

Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1258978
Date first listed:
19-Mar-1962
Date of most recent amendment:
03-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
7 AND 8, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
7 AND 8, HIGH STREET

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
7 AND 8, HIGH STREET

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Potterne
National Grid Reference:
ST 99486 58430

Details

ST 9958 POTTERNE HIGH STREET (east side)

14/159 Nos 7 and 8 (formerly listed as Nos 1 to 4 Porch House Cottages) 19.3.62 GV II

Pair of houses, c1600 timber-framed with plaster panels on rubble stone plinth. Plain tile roof with C19 ridge stack and north end stack on front slope. Two storeys, long 3-window range with continuously jettied upper floor, close-studded ground floor and square-framed first floor, each panel with concave-sided lozenge decoration, unusual in Wiltshire. All windows renewed in late C19 with leaded cross-windows, three upper windows under small gablets, a C19 invention, Ground foor has cross-window, plank door to No 7, cross-window, C19 plank door to through passage and 5-light transomed window. Rear has exposed framing and 3 C19 pointed gabled dormers. Ground floor has heavy chamfered beams with bar stops. One mid C18 corner fireplace with fluted keystone to No 7. No 7 was probably the hall and parlour range, No 8 the kitchen of a single house. (Wiltshire Buildings Record)

Listing NGR: ST9948958434

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
445977
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.

Ordnance survey map of 7 AND 8, HIGH STREET

Map

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 24-Jun-2026 at 22:52:34.

Download a full scale map (PDF)
© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. Use of this mapping is subject to Terms and Conditions.

End of official list entry

All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.

Previous Overview
Next Comments and Photos