48 And 50, High Street

MALMESBURY

ST9387 HIGH STREET 758-1/4/163 (East side) 01/07/76 Nos.48 AND 50

GV II

Pair of houses and shops. Late C18, shop fronts and No.50 refronted mid C19. Coursed limestone rubble and dressings, brick gable stacks and stone slate roof. PLAN: double-depth. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. A continuous pair have rusticated quoins and coped gables with moulded kneelers. Late C19 shop fronts have panelled jambs to consoles and a fascia with cornice, an ashlar plinth to 3 plate-glass lights with ogee heads and thin mullions each side of central recessed doorways with similarly-arched overlights. No.48 has cambered heads to late C20 casements, with a central attic pair of casements and right-hand triple casement roof dormer; a rear single-storey outshut with a single dormer. No.50 has altered first-floor windows with keyed cambered heads and rusticated jambs to horned plate-glass sashes, and 2 gabled dormers with C20 top-hung casements, and timber brackets to the eaves; the right-hand gable has a blocked doorway and left-hand sash, a small rear gable above a gabled range over No.50A Ingram Street. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST9336787029