43 And 43A, High Street

MALMESBURY

ST9387 HIGH STREET 758-1/4/158 (West side) 01/07/76 Nos.43 AND 43A

GV II

Pair of houses, now one house and shop. Late C18. Limestone rubble with brick right-hand party wall stack and stone slate roof. PLAN: double-depth plan with a central through-passage and rear left-hand range. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 6-window range. A regular front has unevenly-spaced windows and rough quoins, a right-of-centre 6-panel doorway, the top pair glazed, and late C19 projecting shop front with thin mullions and a console cornice with a central recessed doorway. Roughly-dressed stone flat arches to 2/2-pane horned exposed sashes, that to the right of the doorway has a timber lintel; the head of the right-hand ground-floor window extends to the left above a straight joint with rough jamb stones. 3 gabled casement dormers. Rear elevation has 3 gables, tallest to the N, smallest central gable with mullion leaded casements, the S gable projects with a mid C19 lower range attached, with mullion first-floor windows. INTERIOR: not inspected but reported as having chamfered ceiling beams.

Listing NGR: ST9331987049