20, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1971. Inn. 3 related planning applications.
20, High Street
- WRENN ID
- fading-moat-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1971
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- 20, High Street, Malmesbury, SN16 9AU
- OS grid reference
- ST 933 871
- Coordinates
- 51.58313, -2.09772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 High Street is an inn that has been converted into a veterinary surgery. It has origins dating back to the 16th century, with the front range rebuilt in the late 18th century. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a brick stack and a hipped stone slate roof. It has a U-shaped plan with rear wings on either side of a through-passage.
The exterior is three storeys high and has a three-window range. The symmetrical front displays quoins and a central segmental arch leading to a cobbled through carriageway. There are shallow bays on each side with overhanging first-floor bays above, which contain paired 6/6-pane sash windows. The second floor has paired horned 6/6-pane sashes, while the centre features a segmental-headed first-floor 8/8-pane sash and a second-floor 6/6-pane sash, all with exposed boxes. At the rear, the 16th-century northern and 18th-century southern ranges project, with the southern range showcasing 8/8-pane and 10/10-pane sashes and a pair of brick side stacks.
The interior was altered in the mid-20th century and includes a covered flagged through-passage leading to the rear courtyard. The roof features collar trusses with butt purlins and a diagonally-set ridge between overlapping trusses. The northern wing consists of three sections, with the middle section being single storey and containing a re-set 16th-century moulded stopped beam, while the rear section has 16th-century collared trusses.
Local climate
20, High Street 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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