Description

CORSHAM PRIORY STREET
ST 87 70
(south side)
5/348 Nos. 1 to 6 (consec.)
Spring Gardens and barn attached.
GV II

Cottage row with outbuilding at right angles, probably C18, rubble
stone with stone tiled roof, 3 ridge stacks and west end stack.
Two storeys. Original flush bead-moulded windows. East end wall
has door to No 1 with original single light to left, altered first
floor window. South front, from right, section with upper original
single light and 3-light windows over 2 doors, original 3-light
window and stone-tiled lean-to. Central section, No 5, projects,
apparently an altered lean-to cart-entry, raised to flat roof and
with casements to both floors. Double-fronted section to right
with flush quoins to left, upper original 2-light window and
casement, lower original 2-light window, door in chamfered surround
and C20 casement. To left is end section with lower 2-light
recessed cyma-moulded window, dripcourse over and 2 upper casement
pairs. West gable end has dove openings over 2-window range of
recessed 2-light cyma-moulded windows, single hoodmould over upper
pair, hoodmoulds over blocked lower pair. North side of cottage
range has, from left, stone-tiled lean-to, 3-light ground floor
window, brick lean-to with 4-pane window over, 3-light over 4-light
window and flush quoins to right section with single light and 3-
light over 3-light and blocked door in chamfered surround. Barn
wing running north has, from left, door in timber-lintel recess,
under eaves dormer with casement, single light, casement pair in
bead-moulded surround with hoodmould, recessed cyma-moulded single
light under dripcourse, triple casement, door in flush bead-moulded
doorcase with dripmould and triple casement. Hipped north gable.
No 5 has unmoulded Tudor-arched fireplace.

Listing NGR: ST8708170706

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26272974

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