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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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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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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District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Malmesbury
National Grid Reference:: ST 93396 87286

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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

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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

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