Description

MALMESBURY

ST9387 OLIVER'S LANE
758-1/4/262 (North side)
01/07/76 Gloucester Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
GLOUCESTER STREET
(South side)
Cottage at rear of No.10)

GV II

Part of inn, now house. Late C15, with later alterations, and
C20 W end porch. Limestone rubble and brick to ground floor,
timber-framed first floor, with brick ridge stack and tiled
roof.
PLAN: 2-room right-angle plan; first-floor rooms open to the
roof of 2 bays to N and one bay separated by closed truss to
S.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. Doorway in the end gable;
timber-framed jettied first floor over brick ground floor,
with C20 casements, 4 to the ground floor and 3 to the first.
INTERIOR: details include a good roof with wind braces to the
lower 2 registers and collar trusses, open on the extended S
end, with a winder stair at the N end, the ground-floor has
exposed first-floor joists with trimmers for a central stair,
quoins and jambs to ground-floor and blocked W window;
chamfered ceiling beams with quirk and tongue stops.
HISTORICAL NOTE: part of the former late C15 White Lion Inn,
No.8 Gloucester Street (qv), and probably used for dormitory
and service accommodation. As such it probably extended to the
road front.
(Stirling D: Secular medieval buildings in Malmesbury, Wilts,
1150-1547: 1986-: 20; Victoria History of the Counties of
England: Crowley DA: Wiltshire: 1956-: 132).

Listing NGR: ST9326287192

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559418

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