Gloucester Cottage Rear Range To Number 10 Gloucester Street (Number 10 Gloucester Street Not Included)

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