Description

MALMESBURY

ST9386 HIGH STREET
758-1/3/195 (North side)
18/01/49 No.92
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(North side)
Nos.92A, 92B AND 92C)

GV II*

Inn, now house. c1600, stack and stair late C17. Coursed
limestone rubble and dressings, with a central stone ridge
stack with brick top and brick end gable stacks, and slate
hipped roof, with slate and pantile to rear wing.
L-shaped single-depth plan with lobby entry, rear W kitchen
wing and later E stable.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. A
near-symmetrical front has timber lintels to a recessed
doorway with 6-panel door, and right-hand former passage
entrance to rear with boarded door, the hoist door above,
infilled, with dressed jambs; paired ground-floor early C19
6/6-pane sashes, and first-floor 4-light mullion windows with
cavetto mouldings and labels, and leaded metal casements, with
a small central casement. Chamfered dressings to a small,
blocked light above the entrance, straight joints to former
central first-floor window, and a wide basement 3-light window
set in the plinth.
INTERIOR: details include chamfered ground-floor ceiling
beams, a good central open-well stair has square newels with
pendants and finials, heavy rail and moulded uncut string, and
turned balusters; first-floor 3-plank door, bar chamfer stops
to beams, a C18 eared fire surround; attic has a chamfered
door surround to the rear wing, which has re-used cruck blades
in a collar truss roof.
HISTORICAL NOTE: possibly originally had W wing extending to a
street gable, rebuilt c1700.
(Wiltshire Buildings Record: Trowbridge: WLBR B158).

Listing NGR: ST9344086945

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17544380

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)