The Three Cups Public House

MALMESBURY

ST9387 GLOUCESTER ROAD 758-1/2/111 (West side) 01/07/76 The Three Cups Public House

GV II

Public house. C17, re-fronted late C19. Rendered limestone rubble with ashlar left-hand gable stack and slate roof, stone slate to the rear. PLAN: U-shaped plan with early C19 SW wing flanking rear yard. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement; 3-window range. A central doorway has bracketed hipped canopy and half-glazed door, with ground-floor double 4-light casements, 1 to the left and 2 to the right, and first-floor 3/3-pane left-hand sashes and, one to the right. The rendered early C19 left-hand gable has a rubble range behind with large, thin quoins to the end gable and a rear section with double Roman tile roof, timber lintels to a left-hand double sash, right-hand C20 casement and first-floor left-hand 6/6-pane sash. Right-hand gable return has a right-hand jamb and rubble cill course of former 2-centre carriage arch, a first-floor C19 casement with stay bar; to the right a C19 shop window in the lower rear C17 wing. INTERIOR: details include chamfered, stopped ceiling beams. Upper floors not seen, but reported to have been re-roofed C19. HISTORICAL NOTE: right-hand rear wing probably formerly extended to include No.2 St Mary's Street (qv).

Listing NGR: ST9305787447