48 and 50, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1976. House, shop.

48 and 50, High Street

WRENN ID
young-plaster-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 July 1976
Type
House, shop
Address
48 and 50, High Street, Malmesbury
OS grid reference
ST 933 870
Coordinates
51.58206, -2.09712
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

48 and 50 High Street are a pair of houses and shops built in the late 18th century, with the shop fronts and number 50 being refronted in the mid-19th century. The buildings are constructed of coursed limestone rubble with dressings, featuring brick gable stacks and a stone slate roof. They are designed in a double-depth plan and stand two storeys tall with an attic, presenting a five-window range.

The continuous pair has rusticated quoins and coped gables with moulded kneelers. The late 19th-century shop fronts have panelled jambs supported by consoles and a fascia with a cornice. Below, there is an ashlar plinth with three plate-glass lights that have ogee heads and thin mullions flanking central recessed doorways, which are topped with similarly-arched overlights.

Number 48 features late 20th-century casements with cambered heads, a central pair of attic casements, and a right-hand triple casement roof dormer, along with a single-storey outshut at the rear that has a single dormer. Number 50 has altered first-floor windows with keyed cambered heads and rusticated jambs for horned plate-glass sashes, as well as two gabled dormers with 20th-century top-hung casements and timber brackets at the eaves. The right-hand gable has a blocked doorway and a left-hand sash, with a small rear gable above a gabled range over number 50A Ingram Street. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

48 and 50, 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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