Description

MALMESBURY

ST9387 GLOUCESTER ROAD 758-1/2/86 (East side) 01/07/76 Nos.65 AND 67

GV II

House, now divided into 2. Early C15, refronted and divided late C18. Rendered limestone rubble with brick ridge and left-hand axial stacks and stone slate roof. PLAN: 3-room plan with through-passage formerly backing onto hall on right (No.65) with former service end to left (No.67); C15 hall open to fine arch-braced ceiling but with little evidence of smoke blackening; the upper end of the hall was rebuilt and is now No.63 (qv). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. A parapeted front, near-symmetrical to No.65 with a central, recessed doorway with half-glazed door, recessed windows, paired 4/4-pane right-hand sashes and matching double left-hand casements, with 8/8-pane first-floor sashes, and a small dormer; No.67 has a left-hand doorway with 3-pane overlight and 6-panel door, the top pair glazed, paired 4/4-pane ground-floor sash and 8/8-pane first-floor sash. Rubble rear elevation has C18 brick rebuilt left-hand first-floor. INTERIOR: 5-bay roof with faint soot blackening extending across Nos 65 and 67, with chamfered, arch-braced collars, wind braces or their mortices to tenoned purlins, and a threaded ridge beam, the upper faces of the trusses facing to the right-hand end, with lath and plaster partitions; No.65 has ceiling beams with wide chamfers on first-floor and a C15 moulding in the left-hand bedroom, and similarly-moulded probably re-set ceiling beam in the ground-floor right-hand room; steps down to cellar cut into rock on line of former through-passage beside inserted stack; C18 stone fire surround with moulded sides and roundels. No.67 has a winder stair to the rear of a left-hand stack, projecting into No.69 (qv) to the left. HISTORICAL NOTE: a former hall house on the fringe of the town with a through-passage on the line of the stack, with inserted first-floor ceiling, axial stack and facade. The ridge and bracing are identical to that in the early C15 No.9 Oxford Street (qv).



Listing NGR: ST9311087473

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