Numbers 20A and 20-26 and Attached Walls Extending Along North Side of Passage to North West
NUMBERS 20A AND 20-26 AND ATTACHED WALLS EXTENDING ALONG NORTH SIDE OF PASSAGE TO NORTH WEST, 20A,20-26, OXFORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269268
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 20A and 20-26 and Attached Walls Extending Along North Side of Passage to North West
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 20A AND 20-26 AND ATTACHED WALLS EXTENDING ALONG NORTH SIDE OF PASSAGE TO NORTH WEST, 20A,20-26, OXFORD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269268
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 20A and 20-26 and Attached Walls Extending Along North Side of Passage to North West
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 20A AND 20-26 AND ATTACHED WALLS EXTENDING ALONG NORTH SIDE OF PASSAGE TO NORTH WEST, 20A,20-26, OXFORD STREET
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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:
- NUMBERS 20A AND 20-26 AND ATTACHED WALLS EXTENDING ALONG NORTH SIDE OF PASSAGE TO NORTH WEST, 20A,20-26, OXFORD 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 93396 87286
Details
MALMESBURY
ST9387 OXFORD STREET 758-1/4/273 (West side) 01/07/76 Nos.20A AND 20-26 (Even) and attached walls extending along north side of passage to north-west
GV II
Almshouses, now terrace of 5 houses. Rebuilt c1825. Coursed limestone rubble and dressings with rear brick lateral stacks and a stone slate roof. PLAN: single-depth. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 2:3:1:2:1-window range. A slightly canted range has openings with cambered heads, some timber lintels, with C20 doors and casements, and gabled dormers; Nos 20 and 19 have late C20 gabled porches, No.26 with original iron bracketed stone slate hood. Gables have large irregular quoins and 2-centre arched lunettes at the apex of each end gable. 4 lateral stacks to the rear which has inserted windows. INTERIOR: largely C20. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rubble wall with ashlar coping, L-shaped on plan, extends north from NW corner of No.26 and turns to the west (left), where it extends to meet Abbey House Water Tower, Market Cross (qv); facing east towards the garden of No.26 is a C19 lean-to. HISTORICAL NOTE: formerly the Jenner Almshouses, founded c1640 by Robert Jenner, the endowment lost 1729 but continued in occupation; corresponding N range demolished later C19. (Moffat Rev JM: The History of the Town of Malmesbury and its Ancient Abbey: Tetbury: 1825-; Victoria History of the Counties of England: Crowley DA: Wiltshire: 1991-: 160).
Listing NGR: ST9340087287
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 460932
- 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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