Top End House
TOP END HOUSE, 40 AND 42, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269228
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Top End House
- Statutory Address:
- TOP END HOUSE, 40 AND 42, WEST STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269228
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Top End House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOP END HOUSE, 40 AND 42, WEST 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.
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:
- TOP END HOUSE, 40 AND 42, WEST 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 92993 87490
Details
MALMESBURY
ST9387 WEST STREET 758-1/2/320 (West side) 01/07/76 Nos.40 AND 42 Top End House
GV II
House, now attached pair. Mid-late C17, No.40 separated early C19. Limestone rubble and dressings, formerly limewashed, with ashlar and brick gable stacks and stone slate roof. PLAN: 3-room plan with gabled rear range. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, cellar and attic; 1:2-window range. No.42 has sprocketed, bracketed eaves and a stone gable stack, timber lintels to a blocked right of centre doorway, former window to the left with a half-glazed door; first-floor label moulds, to 2-light C19 casements; lower 1-window wing behind the right-hand return, with a rear range parallel to the front. No.40 has a recessed left-hand door, and timber lintels to horned 2/2-pane sashes. Exposed ends of 3 ceiling and tie beams. The right-hand gable has a low hatch to the cellar, and the rear range has a ground-floor casement and first-floor late C19 3-light sash. INTERIOR: details of No.42 include a cellar cut into bedrock with a well containing a side passage; altered stair including a late C18 column baluster, early C19 first-floor stone fire surround with corner roundels and flanking cupboards with HL hinges, and a winder stair up to the attic with cambered tenoned collar trusses with butt purlins. No.40 not inspected.
Listing NGR: ST9299087490
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460977
- 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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