2-5, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1363940
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1960
List Entry Name:: 2-5, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: 2-5, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1363940
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1960
List Entry Name:: 2-5, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 2-5, HIGH STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 2-5, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lacock
National Grid Reference:: ST 91633 68416

Details

LACOCK HIGH STREET ST 9168 (south side) 4/105 Nos 2 to 5 (consec) 20.12.60 II*

Range of houses, late medieval with some additions, timber-frame with plaster panels, stone slate roof and two stacks on front roof slope. Two storeys, L-plan with gabled crosswing to right. No 2, former Post Office, has 3 first floor leaded casement windows, ground floor shopfront to left, probably C19, canted bay with 8- pane windows, paired to front, 6-panel door under slate hood and small C20 window to right. No 3 has 2 upper casement pairs, ground floor door to through passage and casement pair to right. No 4, in crosswing gable, has fine exposed framing, cambered tie-beam with opposed curved angle braces over, jettied first floor with curved tension braces and ground floor posts curved out under jetty. Small canted timber-mullion 4-light window to each floor. C17 rear wing has end stack, 2 upper casement pairs, ground floor ovolo- moulded 2-light stone mullion window and door. No 5 is probably a C17 addition to rear of No 4, single-storey and attic with large gabled 4-light dormer, ground floor three-light casement with timber lintel and door to right. Interior: the front range, Nos 2 to 4, is wholly cruck-framed, probably 6 bays of full crucks. In No 3 there is a fine moulded C15 fireplace, with 4-centred arch corbelled out from jambs. The upper room of No 4, in crosswing, has single bay windbraced roof. In the rear wing of No 4, Tudor-arched moulded stone fireplaces with stone shelves, one each floor.

Listing NGR: ST9163968416

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Legacy System number:: 315540
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.