Description

CORSHAM HIGH STREET
ST 8770
(east side)
5/193 Nos 94 - 100 (even)
(formerly listed as separate items)
20.12.60
GV II*

Row of 4 houses, C17, rubble stone formerly roughcast and
limewashed, stone tiled roofs, coped gables with end wall stacks
and paired central ridge stacks. One and a half storeys. 4
large coped dormer gables. Recessed chamfered original mullion
windows. No 94 has original 2-light upper window, ground floor
door in chamfered surround with renewed lintel and hoodmould and
canted bay window with ashlar base and small paned timber windows
with top lights. No 96 has original 3-light upper window, ground
floor studded plank door in chamfered Tudor-arched surround and 4-
light recessed cyma-moulded mullion window. No 98 has original 3-
light upper window with leaded lights and original ground floor 3-
light window, left jamb is king mullion suggesting further lights
to left removed for chamfered door surround with plank door.
Continuous hoodmould over. No 100 has signs in stonework of being
added. Original 2-light upper window, small casement under eaves
to right and ground floor long hoodmould over casement pair and 2-
light recessed ovolo-moulded window, central framed plank door in
deep chamfered surround and 2-light recessed ovolo-moulded window
with hoodmould to left. Four rear gables, rear wings to Nos 94
and 98. Dove openings in gable of No. 96 and 2-light recessed
chamfered mullion window with hood to first floor of No 100. Nos
90-112 (even) form a fine C17 to C18 group, Nos 94-112 known as the
Flemish weavers houses.

Listing NGR: ST8731670616

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543384

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)