Description

MALMESBURY

ST9387 GLOUCESTER STREET
758-1/4/114 (North side)
01/07/76 Nos.3 AND 5
and attached wall
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET CROSS
(West side)
No.4)
(Formerly Listed as:
GLOUCESTER STREET
(North side)
Nos.3 AND 5)

GV II*

Pair of houses, incorporating part of former wall from Church
of St Paul's. C15 church wall, C17 house, refronted and
extended to left early C19.
Limestone rubble and dressings to rear gable, timber framed
house with a rendered brick front, C17 central stack behind
the ridge, and C19 party wall stack and slate roof hipped to
the right and a rear gable.
PLAN: 2-room plan with central stack and matching small
left-hand extension; C17 rear wall incorporates part of C15
church.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey 3-window range. A symmetrical front has a
6-panel door, the top pair glazed and formerly with a
bracketed hood, C19 shop windows each side with 8 panes, and
8/8-pane sashes in exposed frames above; to the left a
1-window C19 range with right-hand half-glazed door, 6-pane
recessed ground-floor window and second-floor top-hung
casement. Rear gable wall formerly part of C15 S wall of
chancel and nave, including 2 blocked 3-centre arches, with
tracery visible inside.
INTERIOR: includes C15 work from St Paul's Church; first-floor
has a Tudor-arched fireplace with moulded, stopped surround,
cornice above and flanked by arched salt niches, and an oak
framed doorway between first-floor rooms with chamfered
reveals and scroll bracketed head, once flanked by
crudely-carved cherubs now in town museum. Adjacent door
re-using section of C15 muntin and plank partition. Downstairs
rear window overlies a moulded 4-centre arched stone doorway.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: approx 5m of attached rubble wall extends
W of NW corner; it includes a large blocked opening (former
window) with quoining and timber lintel over low doorway.
HISTORICAL NOTE: See St Paul's Bell Tower (qv).

(Wiltshire Buildings Record: Trowbridge, WLBR B 145).

Listing NGR: ST9328387229

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17544388

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)