Lacock Stores

Lacock Stores is a pair of houses that were refronted in the early 19th century, originally part of a 14th or 15th-century hall house. The building is constructed from squared rubble stone with ashlar dressings and features a stone slate roof. It has a rear stack on the left and an end stack on the right. The two-storey structure has a three-window formal front, characterized by rusticated angle piers, a raised plinth, a band, a moulded cornice, and a parapet. The outer windows are sixteen-pane sashes, except for the ground floor right, which has a 40-pane bowed shop window set on an ashlar base. The center features a twelve-pane sash above paired doors that are sheltered by a single hood. The left door is a six-panel design, while the right is a four-panel door, both adorned with Regency-style reeding on the lower panels. At the rear left, there is a two-storey rubble stone wing covered with Bridgwater tiles. Inside, the ground floor left includes a large timber-lintel fireplace against the rear wall and a chamfered main beam. The right side was once an open hall, featuring two raised cruck trusses with one and a half bays of windbracing, all of which are smoke-blackened. The rear wing was previously a malthouse, containing a deep oven and a tile malting floor above.