Fleece Hotel

FLEECE HOTEL, 41 AND 43, MARKET STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1187504
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1948
List Entry Name:
Fleece Hotel
Statutory Address:
FLEECE HOTEL, 41 AND 43, MARKET STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1187504
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1948
Date of most recent amendment:
24-May-1993
List Entry Name:
Fleece Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
FLEECE HOTEL, 41 AND 43, MARKET STREET

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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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:
FLEECE HOTEL, 41 AND 43, MARKET 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:
SP0242502032

Details

CIRENCESTER

SP0202 MARKET PLACE
578-1/4/242 (North side)
14/06/48 Nos.41 AND 43
Fleece Hotel
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET PLACE
(North side)
No.41
Grove Garage)
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET PLACE
(North side)
No.43
Fleece Hotel)

GV II

Hotel. Mid C17, mid C18 and late C19 with C20 alterations.
Coursed squared limestone to left, stucco over timber-framing
to centre, stucco to right; clay tile roof to left and centre,
to left with coped verges, Welsh slate roof to right; groups
of 3 ashlar flues to left and right ends to left, C19 brick
right-end stack rebuilt on stone base to centre, brick left-
and right-end stacks to right.
Hotel occupies 3 buildings. To left, late C19, 2 storeys and
attic; 3-window range. First floor has three 2-light chamfered
stone mullion and transom windows with iron casements in
chamfered stone surrounds; three gabled half-dormers with
similar 2-light stone mullion-and-transom windows with pointed
heads to upper lights. Ground floor has C20 glazing in
shopfront style with four 6/3-pane sashes and half-glazed door
recessed to right in timber surround with pilasters, frieze
and moulded cornice.
To centre, mid C17, 2 gables to front, 2 3-storey bay windows,
3 storeys and attic; 3-window range. First floor has one C20
two-light casement to centre, similar 4-light glazing to front
of bay windows to left and right with similar single-light
returns. Second floor has similar windows. Ground floor has
similar arrangement of C20 windows, to bays divided by timber
mullions. 2 similar 2-light windows in gables. Shallow plinth;
moulded timber cornices breaking forward around bays over each
of the ground, first and second floors; Welsh slate roofs to
bays.
Building to right is mid C18, 3 storeys and attic; 4-window
range. First floor has four 6/6-pane sashes in plain reveals
with projecting cills; second floor has four similar 3/6-pane
sashes. Ground floor has 3 similar 6/6-pane sashes to right,
carriage entrance to left with pair of plank doors, C20 glazed
doors to interior. 3 hipped dormers with 2-light casements.
Deep plinth; band courses over ground and first floors; coved
plaster eaves cornice. INTERIORS not inspected.


Listing NGR: SP0242502032

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
365378
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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