BOWLY'S COTTAGES

BOWLY'S COTTAGES, 4-14, WATERMOOR ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187684
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1981
List Entry Name:: BOWLY'S COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: BOWLY'S COTTAGES, 4-14, WATERMOOR ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187684
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1981
Date of most recent amendment:: 24-May-1993
List Entry Name:: BOWLY'S COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: BOWLY'S COTTAGES, 4-14, WATERMOOR ROAD

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:: BOWLY'S COTTAGES, 4-14, WATERMOOR ROAD

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 02441 01624

Details

CIRENCESTER

SP0201 WATERMOOR ROAD 578-1/6/325 (West side) 19/01/81 Nos.4-14 (Even) Bowly's Cottages (Formerly Listed as: WATERMOOR ROAD Nos.4-14 (Even) Sarah Bowley Almshouses)

GV II

Almshouses. Dated 1924. By N Jewson. Coursed limestone rubble; stone slate roof with coped verges; 4 ashlar ridge and left and right end stacks. Range of 6 almshouses with single bay with coped gable to centre broken forward. 2-storey 7-window range. First floor has six 3-light chamfered stone mullion windows with hexagonal pattern leaded light casements, similar 2-light window with drip stone to centre. Ground floor has 6 canted bays with stone-slated roofs and chamfered plinths, each of 4 lights with chamfered stone mullions and transoms and hexagonal pattern leaded lights; 6 plank doors with applied mouldings with Tudor-arched heads in chamfered stone surrounds; to centre round-headed opening to through passage to rear with chamfered stone surround. Small recessed ashlar panels to first floor left and right with carved Tudor roses to corners; ashlar panel over ground floor centre with decorative border and lettering in relief THESE ALMSHOUSES WERE BUILT/ IN 1924 AT THE SPECIAL DESIRE/ OF MR CHRISTOPHER BOWLY OF/ CIRENCESTER BORN 1837 DIED 1922. Small two-sided oriel feature with round-headed openings in gable. Timber cupola with rendered base with panel with relief lettering CB and lead roof with ball finial supporting wrought-iron weather vane with cock. Flush quoins to left and right angles of main range and gabled projection. INTERIORS not inspected. (DoE: List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Amendment: 1971-: 03.12.73).

Listing NGR: SP0244101624

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Legacy System number:: 365463
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.