16 AND 18, HIGH STREET
16 AND 18, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269398
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 18, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 16 AND 18, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269398
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 18, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16 AND 18, HIGH 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:
- 16 AND 18, HIGH 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 93323 87159
Details
MALMESBURY
ST9387 HIGH STREET 758-1/4/146 (East side) 01/07/76 Nos.16 AND 18
GV II
Inn, now 2 houses and shops. Mid C16, divided c1809, later C19 shop fronts. Limestone rubble, with timber square framing refronted in brick early C19, brick stack to N of through-passage below ridge with a stone slate roof to the left and slate to the right. PLAN: U-shaped courtyard plan with a single-depth front range and parallel rear wings flanking through-passage. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. No.16 has a good mid C19 shop front with panelled pilasters and consoles to fascia and cornice, and horned 2/2-pane first-floor sashes, No.18 has a C20 shop front with plate-glass and a single 2/2-pane sash with exposed frame, and a central through-passage with exposed square framing and brick noggingg. N side of rear range has an attic 3-light ovolo-moulded mullion window; matching rear gables to the wings. INTERIOR: details of No.16 include a first-floor front room with left-hand Tudor-arched stone fire surround and chamfered beams, a timber stair in two sections with a door and winder stair to the attic. N wing of 2 storeys and attic has plank and muntin panelling partitions, chamfered beams with carved stops, some panelled cupboards, doors and door frames with old furniture; 3-bay roof with an extended collar truss between dormers carried at one end by 2 elaborately turned balusters, possibly from a former galleried courtyard of inn. No.18 altered. HISTORICAL NOTE: medieval inn on this site in 1540, still open in 1751, closed by 1809. Shop front of No.16 probably built for a druggist in occupation c1828-58.
Listing NGR: ST9333187161
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460810
- 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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