Number 32 And Attached Rear Store

MALMESBURY

ST9387 CROSS HAYES 758-1/4/50 (South side) 18/01/49 No.32 and attached rear store

GV II

Town house. Early-mid C18. Squared, coursed limestone rubble with partly brick rear range, brick left-hand and rear gable stacks and stone slate roof. STYLE: mid Georgian. PLAN: single-depth parallel plan with rear E wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and basement; 5-window range. A symmetrical parapeted front has a central 1-window section set forward with an ashlar pediment, a doorcase with raised surround and bracketed pediment, and double 6-panel doors with top glazed panels; late C19 horned plate-glass ground-floor and C18 6/6-pane first-floor sashes in exposed, slightly recessed boxes, and 2 casement dormers. Simple dressings to wide basement mullion openings with relieving arches. Rear wing has brick end gable and W side with burnt headers, and a gabled dormer, with a 2-storey parapeted section in the re-entrant. INTERIOR: details include a central hall with an open-well stair with a late C18 Chinese fret balusters and ramped, moulded rail and carved brackets; rear left-hand room has a moulded cornice and ceiling beam, 2-panel doors, and flagged basement with elliptical-arched recesses in the right-hand section, round-arched in the E range, one giving access to a well, and a large rear chimney breast. A segmental-arched vault extends forward of the right-hand basement. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached store to rear of rear range has a timber lintel to a wide central entrance. Former fireplaces inside.

Listing NGR: ST9340287093