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POWELL'S SCHOOL

POWELL'S SCHOOL, 3 AND 5, GLOUCESTER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1280443
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-1948
List Entry Name:: POWELL'S SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: POWELL'S SCHOOL, 3 AND 5, GLOUCESTER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1280443
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-1948
List Entry Name:: POWELL'S SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: POWELL'S SCHOOL, 3 AND 5, GLOUCESTER 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:: POWELL'S SCHOOL, 3 AND 5, 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:: SP0211502354

Details

CIRENCESTER

SP0202 GLOUCESTER STREET 578-1/4/152 (South West side) 14/06/48 Nos.3 AND 5 Powell's School

GV II*

School. c1714 with C20 internal alterations. Coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings, rear wing brick with ashlar dressings; stone slate roof with half-hip to left; external stone stack to left side has ashlar top formed to imply pair of flues with moulded tops, similar right-end and 2 rear axial stacks, to rear left of 4 flues. 2 storeys and attic; 7-window range. First floor has seven 2-light stone mullion-and-transom windows with leaded lights in flat unmoulded stone surrounds with projecting stone cills, that to centre with moulded cornice over and segmental pediment with painted inscription in tympanum: FRONT REPAIRED IN/ (1853)/ BY THE HONBLE WM L BATHURST. Ground floor has six similar windows without projecting cills; 6-panel door with upper 2 panels glazed in similar flat surround with pulvinated frieze and pediment over. 7 dormers, to centre gabled, other 6 hipped, with 2-light leaded casements. Chamfered plinth; moulded band course over ground floor; moulded timber eaves cornice. Moulded lead hopper-head to centre right now with cast-iron down-pipe. Left side has one C19 3/3-pane horned sash in heavy rusticated surround with keyed lintel and stone cill to first floor; ground floor has C20 plank door in similar surround to right, 3-light stone mullion-and-transom window with C19 iron casements to left in projecting ashlar bay at base of external stack has frieze and moulded stone cornice over, external stack with flanking carved console brackets above has flush quoins to left and right angles. Eaves cornice returned in stone; false flank wall above cornice with carved bracket over eaves to right side and frieze and moulded stone cornice has keyed oculus with plastic sign in place of former painted inscription now reading: POWELL'S SCHOOL HOUSE/ IN WHICH WERE ESTABLISHED/ THE BLUE SCHOOL 1714/ THE YELLOW SCHOOL 1722/ AMALGAMATED AS/ POWELL'S SCHOOL 1876. Gabled brick wing with sprocketed eaves to rear has two 2-light timber mullion-and-transom windows to each of first and ground floors in plain reveals with brick flat-arch lintels with stone keystones and stone cills; round-headed window in gable with 2-light leaded casement has flat unmoulded stone surround with keystone and rusticated blocks to short vertical sides, projecting stone cill; band courses over ground and first floors, flush quoins to left and right angles. C20 lean-to addition to rear left in reconstituted stone with clay tile roof houses new staircase. INTERIOR has C20 alterations; panelled shutters to ground floor front windows, moulded stone fireplace with Tudor-arched opening to first floor front left; C20 staircase from ground to first floor, C19 stick baluster staircase from first floor to attic. Parts of butt-purlin roof structure visible in attic.

Listing NGR: SP0211502354

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

Legacy System number:: 365290
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.