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DOLLAR STREET HOUSE AND ATTACHED STEPS, RAILING BASES AND IRONWORK

DOLLAR STREET HOUSE AND ATTACHED STEPS, RAILING BASES AND IRONWORK, 30 AND 32, DOLLAR STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1280530
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-1948
List Entry Name:: DOLLAR STREET HOUSE AND ATTACHED STEPS, RAILING BASES AND IRONWORK
Statutory Address:: DOLLAR STREET HOUSE AND ATTACHED STEPS, RAILING BASES AND IRONWORK, 30 AND 32, DOLLAR STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1280530
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-1948
Date of most recent amendment:: 23-May-1993
List Entry Name:: DOLLAR STREET HOUSE AND ATTACHED STEPS, RAILING BASES AND IRONWORK
Statutory Address 1:: DOLLAR STREET HOUSE AND ATTACHED STEPS, RAILING BASES AND IRONWORK, 30 AND 32, DOLLAR STREET

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:: DOLLAR STREET HOUSE AND ATTACHED STEPS, RAILING BASES AND IRONWORK, 30 AND 32, DOLLAR STREET

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:: SP 02172 02296

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CIRENCESTER

SP0202 DOLLAR STREET 578-1/4/123 (East side) 14/06/48 Nos.30 AND 32 Dollar Street House and attached steps, railing bases and ironwork (Formerly Listed as: DOLLAR STREET No.30) (Formerly Listed as: DOLLAR STREET No.32)

GV II*

Formerly known as: Dollar Street House DOLLAR STREET. Offices, formerly house. Dated 1725 and early C19. Built by the lawyer Joseph Pitt who developed Pittville Spa in Cheltenha. Limestone ashlar to front, coursed squared limestone to rear; Welsh slate hipped parapeted roofs; ashlar right-end stack to right, ashlar ridge stacks to front and rear ranges to left. House dated 1725 to right more than doubled in size by early C19 double-pile addition to left; last bay to left of 1725 range refaced to form bay to far right of early C19 range to centre of building. To right, 3 storeys, attic and cellar; 5-window range. First floor has five late C18 6/6-pane sashes with fanlight tops in moulded stone architraves with basket-arched heads with impost blocks, keystones and moulded stone cills; second floor has 5 similar 4/4-pane sashes in similar architraves. Ground floor has 4 similar 6/6-pane sashes to left, to right door with 6 moulded panels with upper 2 panels glazed with similar architrave flanked by two 2/2-pane sash windows with moulded cills contained within similar architrave with impost blocks and keystone with elliptical-arched head; approached via stone steps and plat over basement area with balustrade formed of late C18/early C19 wrought-iron panels incorporating footscrapers; stone steps down to left lead to 6-panel door to basement under front door. 2 dormers with lead-covered segmental heads with 2-light casements. Plinth with moulded top; plat bands on keystones of ground and first floor windows; base moulding of eaves cornice breaks forward over keystones of second floor windows. Moulded lead hopper head now with plastic down-pipe to right dated 1725 with initials CS. To left, 3 storeys and cellar; 6-window range. 4 bays to centre break forward slightly. First floor has six 6/6-pane sashes in plian reveals with stone cills; second floor has 6 similar 3/6-pane sashes. Ground floor has 4 similar 6/6-pane sashes to centre; to right pedimented Ionic porch on plat approached by 4 stone steps, to left 6-panel door in moulded stone architrave approached by 4 stone steps with simple wrought-iron handrail to each side. One opening to cellar to centre with stone steps leading to C20 door. Plinth with moulded offset; moulded band courses over ground and first floors; moulded stone eaves cornice; parapet with 7 dies. Limestone railing bases attached to front support to centre simple wrought-iron overthrow. Rear elevation to left has 2-light chamfered stone mullion and transom windows to second floor, lower windows with C19 alterations; later range has 6/6-pane sashes in flat unmoulded stone surrounds. INTERIOR has to left early C19 enriched marble chimneypieces to ground floor front right and rear left and right; cantilevered stone well staircase with wrought-iron balustrade and mahogany grip handrail from ground to first floor with matching balustrade to gallery over staircase to second floor; stick baluster dog-leg back staircase; enriched marble chimneypiece with Siena marble inlay to first floor rear right; simple marble chimneypieces to first and second floor front left and right and rear left. Interior to right now approached via door to centre to ground floor; former connections to upper floors currently disused. Small winder staircase; first floor front left has applied Adamesque decoration, probably late C19/early C20, in form of plaster panels to walls, swagged frieze and dentil cornice; enriched timber dado rail and architraves, C20 fireplace. Cast-iron Adamesque chimneypiece to first floor rear possibly refixed from front room; simple stone fireplaces to other rooms; chamfered beams with run-out stops to second floor rear left. (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds: London: 1970-: P 178).

Listing NGR: SP0217502315

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Sources

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Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970), 178

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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.