The Apostles and Attached Rear Ruble Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1949. Inn, restaurant. 1 related planning application.
The Apostles and Attached Rear Ruble Wall
- WRENN ID
- stark-wattle-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1949
- Type
- Inn, restaurant
- Address
- The Apostles and Attached Rear Ruble Wall, The Apostles and Attached Rear Rubble Wall, 6, Market Cross, Malmesbury, SN16 9AS
- OS grid reference
- ST 932 872
- Coordinates
- 51.58406, -2.09822
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an inn, now a restaurant, dating from the late 14th or 15th century, with extensions added in the 20th century. It is constructed of limestone rubble, originally with a timber-framed jettied first floor, and has a stone-tiled roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a four-window front. The ground floor projects and has a 20th-century front with a shallow tiled roof and a central doorway. The ground floor has leaded lattice casement windows, and the rear has two dormers. An east-facing front includes a half-octagonal stair turret with a loop window and the remains of a Gothic arch to a former doorway.
The interior has been extensively altered. Evidence remains of the original jettied front, including a moulded bressumer support near the stairs, an inner doorway within a moulded former window head, and part of an ogee-headed niche. The first floor features stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, jowl posts and a stone fireplace, and a collar-truss roof with wind braces to the lower register and butt purlins, which were repaired in the 1960s. The cellar contains a semi-circular tunnel vault that extends beneath the road, and a well.
Attached to the rear is a curved rubble wall that encloses the rear area.
Historical records suggest that the building was formerly associated with the Abbey and, until 1924, was known as the Green Dragon Inn. Local tradition tells of a blocked-in holy stoup where the "Apostle Spoon" was discovered.
Local climate
The Apostles and Attached Rear Ruble Wall receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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