24, 26 AND 28, THOMAS STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1298660
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1948
List Entry Name:: 24, 26 AND 28, THOMAS STREET
Statutory Address:: 24, 26 AND 28, THOMAS STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1298660
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1948
List Entry Name:: 24, 26 AND 28, THOMAS STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 24, 26 AND 28, THOMAS 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:: 24, 26 AND 28, THOMAS 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 01997 02172

Details

CIRENCESTER

SP0102 THOMAS STREET 578-1/3/314 (North side) 14/06/48 Nos.24, 26 AND 28

GV II*

Formerly known as: Monmouth House THOMAS STREET. Offices. C15 and C16 with later alterations. Coursed squared limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; stone slate roofs with coped verges; brick right-end stacks to front and rear ranges to right, ashlar ridge stack with moulded top to left, brick stack to right side of rear wing to left. Building is L-plan with range to right probably C15, range to left, gable facing, C16; later wing to rear left. Front to Thomas Street is 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. First floor has to right C19 single-light casement in plain reveal, similar 2-light casement in chamfered reveal; to left one 2-light chamfered stone mullion-and-transom window with pointed lights with cusped heads has 4-centred arched head with hoodmould now chopped back. Ground floor has to right two C19 two-light timber casements in plain reveals, plank door in ovolo- moulded surround with 4-centred arched head; to left C20 door and window. Leaded-light lancet window with chamfered reveal in gable to left. Left side has four 2-light leaded casements in chamfered stone reveals with near-round heads, possibly with tracery to match first floor front left cut out, in Tudor-arched reveals with hoodmoulds, probably early C19, with rosette stops. Ground floor has one 2-light chamfered stone mullion-and-transom window with leaded lights, 3 similar windows without mullions and transoms, one with 2-light casement, 2 with 6/6-pane sashes; one small chamfered single-light window with leaded light casement. This range has plinth with chamfered top; trefoil stops to copings. Rear wing has to left side one C20 nine-pane fixed light window to first floor, to ground floor 2 similar windows and one similar 3-pane window, one 3 x 6-pane fixed light window and one C20 four-panel door, all in plain reveals with exposed timber lintels; windows to left and centre in blocked former doorways. INTERIOR undergoing alterations during survey 1990; noted as having to ground floor front left heavy chamfered cross beams, 2 doorways to rear with chamfered stone surrounds, to left with steep Tudor arched head, to right with 4-centred arched head, flanking fireplace opening with moulded jambs, no grate. Ground floor rear left has similar cross beams, late C18 stone chimneypiece with eared architrave, frieze and moulded cornice with small C19 grate; further rear left has unchamfered beam, chamfered stone fireplace. (Welsford J: Cirencester: A History and Guide (Print): Gloucester: 1987-: P.46).

Listing NGR: SP0199702172

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Welsford, J, Cirencester a History and Guide, (1987), 46

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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.