2,8 AND 10, KINGS WALL

2,8 AND 10, KINGS WALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1269309
Date first listed:
18-Jan-1949
List Entry Name:
2,8 AND 10, KINGS WALL
Statutory Address:
2,8 AND 10, KINGS WALL
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1269309
Date first listed:
18-Jan-1949
List Entry Name:
2,8 AND 10, KINGS WALL
Statutory Address 1:
2,8 AND 10, KINGS WALL

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
2,8 AND 10, KINGS WALL

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 93375 86924

Details

MALMESBURY

ST9386 KINGS WALL 758-1/3/231 (South side) 18/01/49 Nos.2, 8 AND 10

GV II

Terrace of 5, now 3 houses. Mid C18. Limestone rubble, No.2 roughcast, others formerly limewashed, with rubble rear external lateral stacks and a stone slate roof. PLAN: single-room plan with rear outshuts, formerly with through-passages and side entrances between pairs. EXTERIOR: each 2 storeys; formerly 1-window range, now Nos 2 and 8 are 2-window range. No.2 is symmetrical with a half glazed door beneath a re-used C13 plate tracery window head with 2 trefoil arches and centre quatrefoil, and 2/2-pane horned sashes in exposed boxes; No.8 is symmetrical with a C20 boarded door, rendered lintels, and early C19 8/8-pane ground-floor and 4/8-pane first-floor sashes; No.10 has timber lintels to a left-hand boarded door and C19 casements with 4 horizontal bars each. Openings have irregular re-used ashlar jambs. Rear has 5 external stacks with offsets and water tables at eaves level, C18 brick flues, the centre and right of centre pair linked beneath the water tables; a first-floor casement to No.8, and ground-floor outshuts. INTERIOR: details include earlier and reset roof trusses, No.2 has a flagged former through-passage, with a left-hand front winder stair with stair door. An interesting planned row, with reused features including morticed lintels to front.



Listing NGR: ST9338486924

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Legacy System number:
460889
Legacy System:
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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.

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