Frontiers

FRONTIERS, 21 AND 23, GLOUCESTER STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1205997
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1948
List Entry Name:
Frontiers
Statutory Address:
FRONTIERS, 21 AND 23, GLOUCESTER STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1205997
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1948
Date of most recent amendment:
24-May-1993
List Entry Name:
Frontiers
Statutory Address 1:
FRONTIERS, 21 AND 23, GLOUCESTER 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FRONTIERS, 21 AND 23, GLOUCESTER 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:
SP 02097 02379

Details

CIRENCESTER

SP0202 GLOUCESTER STREET 578-1/4/162 (South West side) 14/06/48 Nos.21 AND 23 Frontiers (Formerly Listed as: GLOUCESTER STREET (South West side) No.7)

GV II*

Formerly known as: Nos.21 AND 23 Sheppards Place GLOUCESTER STREET. House, now shop and residential. Dated 1694. Coursed squared limestone rubble; stone slate roof, concrete tiles to rear; stone right-end stack. 2 gables to front. 2 storeys and attic; 4-window range. First floor has four C19 two-light timber casements in chamfered stone surrounds with stone mullions and transoms cut out; two 2-light timber casements with glazing bars in similar surrounds with renewed concrete lintels in gables above. Ground floor has shop front, C19 with C20 alterations, with two 3-light plate glass windows, timber fascia and moulded timber cornice over. Central half-glazed door is C19; C20 timber plant box on exposed timber lintel over door is supported on small carved timber brackets, probably C19. To left is through-passage to Sheppard's Place in stone surround with moulded jambs and lintel, with incised lettering, SHEPPARD'S PLACE on lintel and ABM 1694 on keystone. Moulded string over first floor windows. C20 hanging sign bracket to first floor centre. INTERIOR not inspected. This house was formerly linked internally to No.19 Gloucester Street (qv), now a separate dwelling. Incorporated into rear wall to right at far end of passage to Sheppard's Place is a stone Doric column, said to be Roman; to left is timber replacement for column now in Corinium Museum.

Listing NGR: SP0209302379

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Legacy System number:
365299
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.

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