92, High Street

MALMESBURY

ST9386 HIGH STREET 758-1/3/195 (North side) 18/01/49 No.92 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (North side) Nos.92A, 92B AND 92C)

GV II*

Inn, now house. c1600, stack and stair late C17. Coursed limestone rubble and dressings, with a central stone ridge stack with brick top and brick end gable stacks, and slate hipped roof, with slate and pantile to rear wing. L-shaped single-depth plan with lobby entry, rear W kitchen wing and later E stable. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. A near-symmetrical front has timber lintels to a recessed doorway with 6-panel door, and right-hand former passage entrance to rear with boarded door, the hoist door above, infilled, with dressed jambs; paired ground-floor early C19 6/6-pane sashes, and first-floor 4-light mullion windows with cavetto mouldings and labels, and leaded metal casements, with a small central casement. Chamfered dressings to a small, blocked light above the entrance, straight joints to former central first-floor window, and a wide basement 3-light window set in the plinth. INTERIOR: details include chamfered ground-floor ceiling beams, a good central open-well stair has square newels with pendants and finials, heavy rail and moulded uncut string, and turned balusters; first-floor 3-plank door, bar chamfer stops to beams, a C18 eared fire surround; attic has a chamfered door surround to the rear wing, which has re-used cruck blades in a collar truss roof. HISTORICAL NOTE: possibly originally had W wing extending to a street gable, rebuilt c1700. (Wiltshire Buildings Record: Trowbridge: WLBR B158).

Listing NGR: ST9344086945