39, HIGH STREET
39, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269408
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1949
- List Entry Name:
- 39, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 39, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 1999-10-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/00304/07
- Rights:
- © Mr G Williams. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269408
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jul-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 39, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 39, 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:
- 39, 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 93320 87075
Details
MALMESBURY
ST9387 HIGH STREET 758-1/4/156 (West side) 18/01/49 No.39 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (West side) Nos.37 AND 39)
GV II
Pair of houses, now 1 shop with flats above. 1487 [tree-ring dating]; remodelled C18 and C19. Rendered timber-frame; limestone rubble rear wing. 2-span stone tile roof, formerly with two gables at front, now hipped behind parapet. PLAN:Originally two 1-bay 3-storey double-jettied timber-framed houses; remodelled in the C18 and C19 and a shop formed on the ground floor with an entrance on the right to accommodation above. Later stone rear wing. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window range. Symmetrical front has thin pilaster strips and storey bands below the parapet, with a ground-floor arcade of 5 round-headed arches with a central doorway and bracketed cornice and imposts, a right-hand doorway with 6-panel door and plate-glass fanlight, and matching left-hand window. First-floor tripartite windows have segmental-arched central heads in raised frames with cornices, and similar smaller second-floor windows in raised surrounds, with 2-light plate-glass sashes. Roof has 2 hips behind the parapet, possibly formerly a pair of street gables, which extend back to rear gables. Rear elevation has a 2-storey gabled wing projecting back with a 3-light C17 casement mullion window with leaded metal casements. INTERIOR: Exposed timber-framing, including jowled storey-posts, some exposed wall-framing at the sides with wall-plates and one curved brace. Collar and tie-beam roof trusses with chamfered tie-beams, trenched purlins and wind-braces. There is no exposed timber-framing on the ground floor except for a re-set moulded timber in the entrance passage on the right. Restored circa early C18 newel staircase with closed string, square newels, turned balusters and a heavy handrail. A rare example of a late C15 town house. SOURCES: [1] Cotswold Archaeology, report 03070 [2] Miles, W.H. Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory: The Tree-Ring Dating of Saxon House, 39 High Street, Malmesbury.
Listing NGR: ST9331587073
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460820
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Miles, W H, The Tree-Ring dating of Saxon House, 39 High Street, Malmesbury, ()
Other
Report No: 03070,
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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