5, High Street

MALMESBURY

ST9387 HIGH STREET 758-1/4/139 (West side) 01/07/76 No.5

GV II

House, now shop. Late C17 with earlier origins, refronted mid/late C19. Limestone rubble with brick window jambs, coursed, squared limestone rear, with a diagonally-set left-hand stack now part of No.7 (qv), and a stone slate roof. PLAN: 2-room right-angle plan with a right-hand central stair. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; 1-window range. A late C19 shop front with panelled jambs, consoles and fascia, and plate-glass windows. 2/2-pane horned sashes beneath wide timber lintels, and brick jambs with straight joints forming infill of wider window spaces; gabled casement dormer. INTERIOR: details include chamfered stopped beams, plank and muntin panelling divisions on ground and first floors by the winder stair, with an early C17 right-hand truss with a plated yoke set in the raised C19 attic gable. A notable survival of a late C17 town house, retaining its original plan form.

Listing NGR: ST9329487203