FORMER TOWN WALL EXTENDING NORTH WEST OF SILVER STREET TO REAR OF 28-34 (NOT INCLUDED)

FORMER TOWN WALL EXTENDING NORTH WEST OF SILVER STREET TO REAR OF 28-34 (NOT INCLUDED), SILVER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269223
Date first listed:: 01-Jul-1976
List Entry Name:: FORMER TOWN WALL EXTENDING NORTH WEST OF SILVER STREET TO REAR OF 28-34 (NOT INCLUDED)
Statutory Address:: FORMER TOWN WALL EXTENDING NORTH WEST OF SILVER STREET TO REAR OF 28-34 (NOT INCLUDED), SILVER STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269223
Date first listed:: 01-Jul-1976
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Jul-1996
List Entry Name:: FORMER TOWN WALL EXTENDING NORTH WEST OF SILVER STREET TO REAR OF 28-34 (NOT INCLUDED)
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER TOWN WALL EXTENDING NORTH WEST OF SILVER STREET TO REAR OF 28-34 (NOT INCLUDED), SILVER STREET

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER TOWN WALL EXTENDING NORTH WEST OF SILVER STREET TO REAR OF 28-34 (NOT INCLUDED), SILVER STREET

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Malmesbury
National Grid Reference:: ST 93489 87089

Details

MALMESBURY

ST9387 SILVER STREET 758-1/2/287 (North East side) 01/07/76 Former town wall extending NW of Silver Street to rear of 28-34 (not included) (Formerly Listed as: SILVER STREET (BACK HILL) The Town Wall forming the rear curtilage of Nos 28-34)

II

Former town wall. Early C12, with later rebuilding. Coursed, squared limestone rubble. 4-metre section at north end, probably mid C17 and representing either part of Civil War defences or communal rebuild after demolition in 1646; at the south end is a section rebuilt in mid C20 concrete block and then an approx 16-metre medieval section built on natural limestone outcrop; at this junction is a former icehouse, probably C17 and built of coursed and squared blocks; at the south end of this latter section a later wall is returned at right angles to the river; the main section of the wall is continued southwards, and is finished by a length in C18 Flemish bond brick. (Report by Keystone Historic Building Consultants: 1994-: 25-26).

Listing NGR: ST9348987089

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 460972
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Keystone Historic Building Consultants, , The Town Walls of Malmesbury, (1994), 25-26

Legal

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