18 AND 20, GLOUCESTER STREET
18 AND 20, GLOUCESTER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269414
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 18 AND 20, GLOUCESTER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 18 AND 20, GLOUCESTER STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269414
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 18 AND 20, GLOUCESTER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18 AND 20, GLOUCESTER STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 18 AND 20, GLOUCESTER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Malmesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 93240 87223
Details
MALMESBURY
ST9387 GLOUCESTER STREET 758-1/4/121 (West side) 01/07/76 Nos.18 AND 20
GV II
Medieval shop or warehouse, beneath pair of houses and shop. C15 undercroft beneath late C17 rear range, and mid C19 front. Coursed, squared limestone facade with rubble returns and rear, party wall and gable stacks and a slate roof with stone slate to the rear. PLAN: double-depth, No.20 based on former C17 house. EXTERIOR: each of 3 storeys and basement; 2-window range. An unequal pair: No.20 narrower with a C19 shop front with cornice, triple 4/4-pane sashes and a left-hand door, and deeply-set 6/6-pane sashes above; No.18 has 2 doorways to the right with rectangular overlights and half-glazed doors, paired 2/2-pane ground-floor, and similar upper sashes. Rear C17 gabled range to No.20 forms a pair with No.28/30 (qv), with a weathered band across both above the basement, carved stone stacks, first-floor segmental-arched mullion window, and gabled side dormer. INTERIOR: details include a shallow, vaulted rubble undercroft to No.20 with steps down from the street end, and a C17 splayed mullion rear window; chamfered and stopped ceiling beams and collar trusses. HISTORICAL NOTE: Undercroft converted for use as loop in town wall which was incorporated into wall of Nos 28 and 30 (qv). (Stirling D: Secular medieval buildings in Malmesbury, Wilts, 1150-1547: 1986-: 10).
Listing NGR: ST9324087221
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460784
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stirling, D, Secular Medieval Buildings in Malmesbury Wiltshire 1150-1547, (1986), 10
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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