16 And 18, Silver Street

MALMESBURY

ST9387 SILVER STREET 758-1/4/285 (North East side) 01/07/76 Nos.16 AND 18

GV II

Pair of houses, now one. Late C18/early C19. Limestone rubble with brick rear lateral stack, and stone slate roof. Single-depth plan with rear outshut. 2 storeys; 2-window range. Segmental-arched heads to a right-hand doorway with a stone slate canopy on timber brackets and a ribbed plank door, and to horned 3/3-pane ground-floor sashes; a timber lintel to a left-hand doorway and boarded door, and to 2-light casements under the eaves. The right-hand return has a small partly blocked attic window and leaded casement, the apex rendered above a stone slate string. Rear outshut and stack. INTERIOR: details include a stone-flagged entrance passage, pair of fireplaces to the back of the front room with a small left-hand cast-iron C19 range and included medieval carved work, rear right-hand winder stair. HISTORICAL NOTE: possibly an infill between earlier houses, the gable includes earlier stonework.

Listing NGR: ST9346287062