4 And 5, Church Street

Nos 4 and 5 on Church Street are a pair of houses dated 1714, located in Corsham. They are constructed from limewashed rubble stone and feature a stone tiled roof with coped gables. The buildings are two and a half storeys high and have a four-window range. Each house has four dormer gables with moulded coping and hoodmoulds over 2-light recessed cyma-moulded windows. On the first floor, there are four similar 3-light windows with a continuous dripcourse above. The ground floor has a stepped dripcourse over two pairs of 12-pane sash windows in raised moulded surrounds flanking the door of No 4, and two 16-pane sashes flanking the door of No 5. Both houses have six-panel doors in flush cyma-surrounds with broad curved hoods supported by large brackets. The rear of No 4 features a wallface stack, an upper floor horizontal sash window under a hoodmould, a door in a moulded flush surround, and a rear wing with a 19th-century slate roof and an upper 16-pane sash window, as well as a ground floor 3-light recessed ovolo-moulded window. The rear of No 5 has a first floor 2-light flush cyma-moulded window with a hoodmould and a hipped single storey addition at the south-east angle.