2-12, CASTLE STREET
2-12, CASTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204979
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 2-12, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2-12, CASTLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204979
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 2-12, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2-12, CASTLE 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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 2-12, CASTLE 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:
- SP0224002022
Details
CIRENCESTER
SP0202 CASTLE STREET
578-1/4/24 (North side)
23/07/71 Nos.2-12 (Even)
GV II
Shops and offices. Dated 1896. By John Birch of London for
Earl Bathurst. Coursed squared limestone; clay tile roofs; 9
stone ridge and end stacks, one pair of diagonally-set ashlar
flues on corbelled-out stack to right end.
Long range to Castle Street with splayed corner to right and
short return elevation to Market Place; 11 gables to Castle
Street, one gable to splayed corner to right, one gable to
Market Place.
3-storey 16-window range. First floor has thirteen 2- and
3-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullion and mullion-and-transom
windows and one single-light window with leaded upper lights
and moulded stone cills; two 3-light oriel windows with
moulded stone bases and parapets; large 2-storey 7-light oriel
window to centre left with moulded stone base and embattled
parapet. Second floor has thirteen chamfered stone mullion 1-,
2- and 3-light windows.
Ground floor has five late C20 shopfronts; three C19
three-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion-and-transom windows
with segmental-arched heads to Post Office to left. Two C20
doors in moulded stone surrounds to Post Office to left; C19
part-glazed 6-panel door in Tudor-arched moulded stone
surround and C19 wrought-iron gate at entrance to through
passage to rear in similar surround to right; pair of C19
plank doors with decorative strap hinges in moulded stone
surround with Tudor-arched head to centre left under oriel
window.
Deep plinth with moulded top; moulded strings over ground,
first and second floors forming hoods over ground and second
floor openings. Gables and shaped gables with moulded copings;
finials and ball finials on gables and parapet. Datestone 1896
on Post Office to left; 12 square section down-pipes with
castellated hoppers dated 1896; datestone in gable on splayed
corner to right with initial B and date 1897.
Return elevation to Market Place similar to Castle Street with
3-light oriel window to first floor. INTERIORS not inspected.
(Viner DJ: Cirencester As It Was: Nelson, Lancashire: 1983-:
P.27 AND 28).
Listing NGR: SP0224002022
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365162
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Viner, D J, Cirencester As It Was, (1983), 27-28
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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