125, High Street

MALMESBURY

ST9386 HIGH STREET 758-1/3/203 (South side) 06/08/74 No.125 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (South side) Nos.87-103, 107, 113-137 (Odd))

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.125-131 HIGH STREET. House, extended, divided into 4, now one. Early C17, extended mid C17, refronted, roof raised; extended to rear late C18. Limestone rubble with brick lateral and gable stacks and stone slate roof. PLAN: L-plan, a 2-room parallel range with a through-passage, mid C17 right-hand rear wing and C18 left-hand rear service wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 4-window range. Timber lintels to openings, 2 central doorways with boarded doors, the left-hand one with a wide C18 frame and 3-plank door to the through-passage, a right-hand former shop window with 3 plate-glass panes, left-hand ground-floor window with brick infill to side and below, with wide plate-glass sashes with margin bars in exposed boxes. Sections of former wall plate flank first-floor windows. The through-passage is flagged with timber square framing with brick noggingg, and doorways each side to the front. Rear 2-window range has an inserted stack toward the rear; a blocked doorway to the left of the current doorway at the rear end of the passage, a C17 3-light pegged timber mullion windows with iron casements, and the gable has a ground-floor 10/10-pane sash. Brick C18 wing has a well. INTERIOR: details of the front range include a timber-framed through-passage, the right-hand room has a bressumer to a rubble hearth with parts of a former winder stair to the left, now a doorway, with wide chamfers to beams and wall plate, first-floor with a 3-bay roof with early C17 truss blades with trenched purlins to extended C18 tie beams. The rear wing has thick walls, splayed window reveals with seats, and chamfered, stopped beams; the roof largely rebuilt C19, has a C17 truss behind the stack that backs onto the front range, possibly from a smoke bay.

Listing NGR: ST9347286908