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WOOLGATHERERS AND ATTACHED WAREHOUSE

WOOLGATHERERS AND ATTACHED WAREHOUSE, 53, COXWELL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1187448
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-1948
List Entry Name:: WOOLGATHERERS AND ATTACHED WAREHOUSE
Statutory Address:: WOOLGATHERERS AND ATTACHED WAREHOUSE, 53, COXWELL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1187448
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-1948
Date of most recent amendment:: 23-May-1993
List Entry Name:: WOOLGATHERERS AND ATTACHED WAREHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: WOOLGATHERERS AND ATTACHED WAREHOUSE, 53, COXWELL 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:: WOOLGATHERERS AND ATTACHED WAREHOUSE, 53, COXWELL 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:: SP0203102168

Details

CIRENCESTER

SP0202 COXWELL STREET 578-1/4/91 (South side) 14/06/48 No.53 Woolgatherers and attached warehouse (Formerly Listed as: THOMAS STREET (South side) Warehouse Block) (Formerly Listed as: COXWELL STREET (South side) No.53 Coxwell Court)

GV II*

Includes: Warehouse block THOMAS STREET. House with attached warehouse fronting Thomas Street. Mid/late C17 and early C18. Coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings. Main range facing Coxwell Street has stone slate roof hipped to left; stone ridge stack and two external stone stacks to rear. Warehouse block to right of main range, gable facing, has stone slate roof with brick end stack and lean-to extension to left with stone slate roof with brick stack just above eaves. Small wing to left of main range, gable facing, has stone slate roof. Wing to left and warehouse block to right enclose small courtyard in front of main range which is set back from Coxwell Street. 3 storeys and attic; originally 5-window range now partially obscured by lean-to extension to warehouse block to right. Four windows to first floor; 3 in stone surrounds, probably late C17 with stone mullions and transoms cut out, with leaded lights; one to centre in early/mid C18 eared architrave with bracketed cill and timber casement, flanked by 2 possible blocked openings or bases for features now missing. Five ovolo-moulded stone mullion-and-transom windows with leaded lights to second floor, that to far right partly blocked. Four 9/9-pane early C18 sashes in moulded stone architraves to ground floor. Central door has 2 upper panels glazed and 4 lower panels in the form of a St Andrew's Cross in moulded stone doorcase with Doric pilasters supporting pediment. Plinth of cement render up to ground floor window cills; moulded string courses over ground and first floors, that to ground floor breaking forward above window architraves; moulded timber eaves cornice. Small wing to left is single storey with cellar; two 9/9-pane sashes in moulded stone architraves flank part-glazed door in moulded stone architrave. Wing to right has 2 6/6-pane sashes in plain reveals with stone cills on first floor and two similar windows on ground floor; small circular window to first floor left, open arcade supported on Doric columns to ground floor left. Right return facade is former warehouse front facing Thomas Street. 4-storey 6-window range, flanked by two 3-storey one-window ranges, all under continuous roof. Centre range has four windows with segmental arched heads with keystones, unmoulded stone cills and leaded lights to centre of first floor; rectangular openings to left and right, that to right blind. Second floor has 6 similar square openings; third floor has 6 blind openings, 4 to centre with round heads with keystones, square openings to left and right. Four 2-light timber casements in segmental arched openings with keystones to ground floor, that to far left broader former doorway. C20 plank door with overlight in similar opening to right. Pair of large boarded doors in segmental arched opening with rusticated stone surround to far right. Shallow plinth; band courses over ground, first and second floors. Flanking wings have Venetian windows in raised unmoulded stone surrounds with keystones to first floor (cf Coxwell Court (qv) and The Little Mead (qv)); both wings have 2 blind openings with raised unmoulded stone surrounds to second floor and 2 window openings under exposed timber lintels to ground floor. 3-storey 1-window extension to right wing has similar blind Venetian window with gargoyle head over on right return facade. Rear elevations of warehouse and house have six similar carvings said to come from Abbey. INTERIOR has early C17 open well oak staircase, refixed and probably from another building, with closed string, bobbin turned balusters and newels with pierced finials and similar pendant drops. Hall and ground floor left room have early C18 painted timber panelling and bolection moulded fireplaces; similar fireplace and early C18 cupboard in former counting-house in single-storey wing to left. Plastered beams with broad chamfers and run out stops, most with broad notch after stop. Collar-truss roof with curved principals and tenoned purlins, extensively repaired..........

Listing NGR: SP0203102168

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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.