The Limes Waterloo House

THE LIMES, 57, DYER STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1187467
Date first listed:
23-Jul-1971
List Entry Name:
The Limes Waterloo House
Statutory Address:
THE LIMES, 57, DYER STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1187467
Date first listed:
23-Jul-1971
Date of most recent amendment:
24-May-1993
List Entry Name:
The Limes Waterloo House
Statutory Address 1:
THE LIMES, 57, DYER STREET
Statutory Address 2:
WATERLOO HOUSE, 57, DYER STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Location

Statutory Address:
THE LIMES, 57, DYER STREET
Statutory Address:
WATERLOO HOUSE, 57, DYER 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:
SP0266601947

Details

CIRENCESTER

SP0201 DYER STREET
578-1/6/145 (North side)
23/07/71 No.57
The Limes and Waterloo House
(Formerly Listed as:
DYER STREET
Nos.53, 55 AND 57
The Limes)

GV II

House, now offices. c1760-80. Render over coursed limestone
rubble; Welsh slate hipped roof, Welsh slate roof to wing has
half-hip to right; brick stacks to rear and right end of main
range, on rear slope of wing and gable end of rear range. Main
range has front to left side, wing to right of front, possibly
earlier, and early C19 wing to rear.
3-storey 3-window main range. First floor has three 6/6-pane
sashes, to left with horns, in plain reveals; three 3/6-pane
sashes to second floor. Ground floor has two C19 canted bays
with 4 pairs of plate glass horned sashes to each bay flanking
late C18 porch with Doric pilasters, open pediment enclosing
fanlight and door with 6 flush panels. Rusticated quoins to
left and right angles; cill band to first floor. Wing to right
is 2-storey 3-window range with break forward to centre. First
floor has one 6/6-pane and two 8/8-pane sashes; ground floor
has one 6/6-pane sash, one 8/8-pane horned sash and one 9-pane
C20 window with top-hung light, C20 half-glazed door.
Rusticated quoins to left angle adjacent to main range and in
angle of break; cill band to first floor. Early C19 range to
rear also attached to rear of No.55 Dyer Street (qv). INTERIOR
not inspected.


Listing NGR: SP0266601947

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
365281
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

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

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