9 And 11, High Street

MALMESBURY

ST9387 HIGH STREET 758-1/4/141 (West side) 01/07/76 Nos.9 AND 11

GV II

Pair of houses, now one house and 2 shops. Mid C17, mid-late C19 facade, C20 shop fronts. Rendered, with part timber-framed rear; rubble and brick party wall stacks and tiled roof. PLAN: 1:2 bays parallel to street, with C18 rear left-hand wing. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; 3-window range. Pair of houses, No.9 wider, unified behind a facade with round-ended rusticated quoins, plain frieze and coved parapet coping returning at the ends. Plate-glass shop windows with canted ends, central door to wider left-hand shop, and left-hand door to right-hand shop. First-floor sashes have 8/8 panes to the right, 6/6-panes to the centre, and a square left-hand oriel with 12 panes and side casements; 3/6-pane second-floor sashes. Rear of No.9 has a second-floor jettied gable and 2-light mullion window, No.11 has a half-hipped roof with late C17 2-light gabled dormer with iron stays, fittings and leaded lights. Rear wing of 4 windows with cottage and stables, rubble with stone slate roof, and segmental-arched heads to sashes. Boarded and panelled doors. INTERIOR: not inspected but No.9 reported as having a C16 roof with jowl posts, collar trusses and wind braces, No.11 has chamfered ceiling beams and collar truss roof renewed C19, with an extensive vaulted undercroft possibly C13. HISTORICAL NOTE: probably originally a jettied front. (Stirling D: Secular medieval buildings in Malmesbury, Wilts, 1150-1547: 1986-: 10).

Listing NGR: ST9329587189