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CIRENCESTER PARK WALL, GATES, LODGES AND MUSEUM OF ROMAN ANTIQUITIES

CIRENCESTER PARK WALL, GATES, LODGES AND MUSEUM OF ROMAN ANTIQUITIES, TETBURY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1187523
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-1969
List Entry Name:: CIRENCESTER PARK WALL, GATES, LODGES AND MUSEUM OF ROMAN ANTIQUITIES
Statutory Address:: CIRENCESTER PARK WALL, GATES, LODGES AND MUSEUM OF ROMAN ANTIQUITIES, TETBURY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1187523
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-1969
List Entry Name:: CIRENCESTER PARK WALL, GATES, LODGES AND MUSEUM OF ROMAN ANTIQUITIES
Statutory Address 1:: CIRENCESTER PARK WALL, GATES, LODGES AND MUSEUM OF ROMAN ANTIQUITIES, TETBURY ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CIRENCESTER PARK WALL, GATES, LODGES AND MUSEUM OF ROMAN ANTIQUITIES, TETBURY ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:: Cirencester
National Grid Reference:: SP0173601678

Details

CIRENCESTER

SP0101 TETBURY ROAD 578-1/5/298 (North West side) 05/06/69 Cirencester Park wall, gates, lodges and Museum of Roman Antiquities

GV II*

Wall, gates, lodges and Museum. Early/mid C18, Museum 1856, mid C19 and early C20. Park wall to Park Lane and Tetbury Road has attached or built into it, lodge to estate yard and gateway to Cirencester Park Mansion in Park Lane, Museum of Roman Antiquities and Kennels' Lodges in Tetbury Road. Wall is approximately 3m high of coursed squared limestone with quoins to angles and ashlar coping in Park Lane, approximately 4m high at Museum becoming gradually lower and changing to coursed squared limestone rubble, then coursed limestone rubble with cement capping at Kennels' Lodges; one wrought-iron footgate with spear tops in plain reveal and one similar blocked gateway in Tetbury Road. Lodge to estate yard is early C20, coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof; single-storey 3-window range. Ground floor has two 2-light timber casements in moulded stone surrounds with bracketed stone cills to right, to left canted oriel with moulded stone mullions and transoms and leaded upper lights has stone sill supported on single console bracket, moulded cornice with pediment over centre light; deep chamfered plinth; rusticated quoins to left and right angles; entrance to rear. Gateway to Cirencester Park Mansion, early/mid C18; limestone ashlar and rock-faced limestone, has pair of 24-panel doors with 6-panel wicket gate with cast-iron lion-head knocker with timber panel infilling round-headed opening with rusticated surround. Shallow plinth; impost bands from opening to quoin strips at left and right angles; ashlar frieze, modillion cornice and blocking course topped by 3 ball finials. Former Museum of Roman Antiquities in Tetbury Road, present use unknown, has attached house. Coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings; double-pile Welsh slate roof to Museum; house has clay tile hipped roof with stone stack to right side. Museum is single high storey with two 4-light horseshoe-shaped windows with chamfered mullions and moulded cills in moulded stone surrounds with recessed panels below. Band course at approximately 3m, ashlar sets back above to flat panels with moulded band beside and over windows, pilasters rise from band course to centre and left and right angles; 2 coped gables. To right of Museum, flat chamfered surround to pair of iron gates with moulded cornice and parapet over giving access to roofed space with 6-panel door to Museum in moulded stone architrave to left, 6-panel doors to rear and to right giving access to house. House to right is 2-storey single-window range; first floor has one 2-light timber casement in flat unmoulded surround, ground floor has similar 3-light chamfered stone mullion window; band course over ground floor; flush quoins to left and right angles. Kennels' Lodges in Tetbury Road, mid C19, coursed squared limestone; clay tile roofs with coped verges; reconstituted stone ridge stack to lodge to right, ashlar stacks with moulded tops to ridge and gable end to rear of lodge to left. Lodge to right has entrance front to left side; single-storey 2-window range. Ground floor has two C19 two-light timber casements in plain reveals with stone cills, one plank door with applied mouldings forming 3 vertical panels to right. Elevation to Tetbury Road has one 3-light chamfered stone mullion window. Ball finials at apex of gables to left and right ends. Lodge to left is L-plan with one gable to entrance front. 2 storeys and cellar; 2-window range. First floor has two 2-light chamfered stone mullion windows with iron casements, ground floor has one similar 2-light and one similar 3-light window. Door with Tudor-arched head with panels formed by applied mouldings in chamfered surround to left, similar plank door in wall to right. Ashlar plinth; ball finials to coped gables to front and left side. Grille to cellar in ground to right front. Road front to left has 2-light window to first floor, 3-light window to ground floor, moulded string over ground floor. Two C19 foot gates and pair of large gates with spear tops, 2 ashlar piers approximately 2.5m high with plinth and pyramidal capping form entrance between lodges; similar pier in wall to right of lodge to right. INTERIORS not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP0173601678

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.