Description

CALNE

ST9971 CURZON STREET
755-1/4/52 (North side)
No.15
and shop to the right

GV II

House and shop. Early C18 house refronted mid C19; mid C19
shop. C20 render to front, limestone rubble to right return
and rear, painted ashlar front to English-bond brick shop;
crested pantile roof with brick stack to right gable end.
2-unit plan with rear service wing to the left and one-storey
shop attached to right.
2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 3-window range. Windows are
flat-arched C19 horned plate-glass sashes with margin panes,
that over the central door has a semicircular top pane with
engraved red margin panes, the others are paired. The C19 door
is stripped pine with 6 panels, probably repositioned. The
2-storey rubblestone rear wing is 2-window range with similar
crested pantile roof and brick ridge stack. A blocked window
in the apex of the rear gable end has a stone architrave.
Openings in the side have timber lintels.
The single-storey former butcher's shop has a coped ashlar
parapet. To the right, a large 3/3-pane horned sash shop
window has a moulded fascia with consoles, panelled pilasters
and a bracketed cill. The restored C19 door has a large
pierced cast-iron overlight.
INTERIOR: a stone-flagged possibly former through-passage, now
blocked to the rear, leads to the stone-flagged kitchen wing
which has a chamfered axial beam to the ground floor. The room
to the front left has a cupboard with early C18 raised and
fielded panels to the left of the chimney breast; the room to
the front right has recesses with early C18 shaped shelves and
moulded architraves flanking a late C19 fireplace. The attic
has exposed trenched purlins to C18 roof.

Listing NGR: ST9958971162

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539458

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