KINGSLEIGH AND ATTACHED RAILING BASES

KINGSLEIGH AND ATTACHED RAILING BASES, 27 AND 27A, SHEEP STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187516
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-1948
List Entry Name:: KINGSLEIGH AND ATTACHED RAILING BASES
Statutory Address:: KINGSLEIGH AND ATTACHED RAILING BASES, 27 AND 27A, SHEEP STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187516
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-1948
Date of most recent amendment:: 23-May-1993
List Entry Name:: KINGSLEIGH AND ATTACHED RAILING BASES
Statutory Address 1:: KINGSLEIGH AND ATTACHED RAILING BASES, 27 AND 27A, SHEEP 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:: KINGSLEIGH AND ATTACHED RAILING BASES, 27 AND 27A, SHEEP 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:: SP0211101773

Details

CIRENCESTER

SP0201 SHEEP STREET 578-1/6/286 (East side) 14/06/48 Nos.27 AND 27A Kingsleigh and attached railing bases (Formerly Listed as: SHEEP STREET No.27 Kingsleigh)

GV II

House. Probably late C18, reconstructed by VA Lawson for himself, late C19/early C20. Limestone ashlar to centre, coursed squared limestone to wings; roof to centre is lead flat behind parapet with Welsh slate gabled roof to rear, Welsh slate roofs to wings; rendered stacks to left and right of main range on coped gables of wings, 2 reconstituted stone stacks to left and right of gabled roof to rear centre. Main range with pedimented central bay breaking forward slightly is set back from street and flanked by pair of wings coming forward to edge of pavement. Main range is 2-storey 5-window; first floor has five C19 3/6-pane horned sashes in plain reveals; ground floor has 4 similar 6/6-pane sashes with stone cills. Ground floor centre has pedimented Doric porch with half-column respond; 6-panel door with decorative overlight with 3 octagonal panes. Shallow ashlar plinth; band course over ground floor; cill band to first floor; moulded stone cornice with pediment to centre; blocking course. Former railing bases with segmental tops extend from porch to each wing. Wing to left is 2-storey 2-window; two 3/6-pane sashes in plain reveals to first floor; 2 similar windows below with stone cills. Door with 6 flush panels and single-pane overlight in plain reveal to left. Shallow plinth; cill band to first floor. Right return has single-pane sash to ground floor. Wing to right (No.27A) is similar to wing to left without cill band to first floor but narrow band course over ground floor to correspond to cill band to left; half-glazed C20 door with 4-pane overlight. Each wing has moulded eaves gutter; moulded hopper head and rectangular section down-pipe to return to main range. INTERIOR not inspected but No.27 noted as having staircase to left with shaped cheek-pieces, 2 turned balusters to a tread, possibly C18 rearranged in C19. (List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: 1971-: P.95; The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds: London: 1970-: P.183).

Listing NGR: SP0211101773

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Legacy System number:: 365422
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970), 183

Legal

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