40 and 42 High Street

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ST9387 758-1/4/157

MALMESBURY HIGH STREET (east side) Nos. 40 and 42

(Formerly listed as No.42 )

01/07/76

GV II House, then pair of shops, in one occupation (at time of occupation). Late C18 with late C19 and C20 shop fronts. Limestone rubble and dressings with a truncated brick stack and stone slate roof.

PLAN: U-shaped with single-depth front and rear wings to a through-passage.

EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic; 2:2-window range. No. 40, half the width of No.42, has a full-width shop front has thin mullions to plate-glass windows, consoles to a fascia, with recessed right-hand doorway with a good C18 fanlight and four-panel door, and recessed shop window between the windows; rendered lintels to 2/2-pane first floor sashes in exposed boxes, and cambered heads to two casement dormers. No.42 to the right has a full-width shop front, quoins above and a plain fascia, with widely-spaced windows with rendered lintels to 8/8-pane sashes in exposed sashes. Good cast-iron hopper with lion head, decorative downpipe and full-width gutter with an ivy leaf pattern.

INTERIOR: details include a winder stair over the through-passage, and a first floor front room with a dividing elliptical arch.

Listing NGR: ST9335987068