OXFAM ROXTON SPORTING SWAN LACE

3A, WEST MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298664
Date first listed:: 24-May-1993
List Entry Name:: OXFAM ROXTON SPORTING SWAN LACE
Statutory Address:: 3A, WEST MARKET PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298664
Date first listed:: 24-May-1993
List Entry Name:: OXFAM ROXTON SPORTING SWAN LACE
Statutory Address 1:: 3A, WEST MARKET PLACE
Statutory Address 2:: OXFAM, WEST MARKET PLACE
Statutory Address 3:: ROXTON SPORTING, 3 AND 5, WEST MARKET PLACE
Statutory Address 4:: SWAN LACE, 7, WEST MARKET PLACE

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:: 3A, WEST MARKET PLACE
Statutory Address:: OXFAM, WEST MARKET PLACE
Statutory Address:: ROXTON SPORTING, 3 AND 5, WEST MARKET PLACE
Statutory Address:: SWAN LACE, 7, WEST MARKET PLACE

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:: SP0225702052

Details

CIRENCESTER

SP0202 WEST MARKET PLACE 578-1/4/335 (West side) Nos.3, 3A, 5 AND 7 Roxton Sporting (3 and 5), Oxfam and Swan Lace (7)

GV II

Includes: Swan Lace SWAN YARD. 3 shops with flat over. C16 or early C17, probably with mediaeval origins, with later alterations including late C18/early C19 refronting and early C20 shopfronts; building to left C19, possibly with earlier origins, with C20 alterations. Lined-out stucco to fronts; Welsh slate parapeted roofs with hip to front to right; brick lateral stacks to right sides to left and right. Rear wing to right externally early C19, coursed squared limestone, concrete tile roof with brick stack on gable end. Rear wing to left in 2 parts has stucco to right side, coursed squared limestone rubble to end; Welsh slate roof; brick stack on gable end; lower part to rear rendered with concrete tile roof. Pair of buildings to right, separate building to left, in one ownership with internal access between buildings. To left, 3-storey 4-window range. First floor has four single-light windows in plain reveals with projecting cills with C20 leaded casements; second floor has three C19/ C20 horned sashes, two 4/4-pane flanking 6/6-pane sash in plain reveals with projecting cills. Ground floor has C20 timber shopfront with 2 curved plate glass windows and glazed door to right with single-pane overlight in surround of pilasters, heavy console brackets, frieze and moulded cornice with blind box, in similar style to pair of shopfronts to right. Band course over second floor, bracketed eaves cornice and blocking course. To right, 2-storey 4-window range. First floor has four 6/6-pane sashes in plain reveals; ground floor has pair of early C20 timber shopfronts in Art Nouveau style each with sinuous glazing bars to 2 windows flanking glazed door, in heavy surround with pilasters to each side, frieze and moulded cornice incorporating blind box. Parapet over eaves moulded as frieze and cornice. Clock on ornamental iron bracket to first floor centre. Right side of rear wing facing onto Swan Yard has 2 early C19 6/6-pane sashes to first floor, one similar sash to ground floor, small C20 shopfront. Flat unmoulded door surround with keyed lintel now blocked. Right side of rear wing of building to left is 2 storeys and single-storey and attic with C20 windows and rooflights and one gabled dormer with single-light casement to rear part; offset buttress at junction of 2 ranges of wing. INTERIOR to centre has to cellar 6 stone brackets to front right, not now supporting floor, and one small bracket possibly base for missing feature, all possibly mediaeval; ground floor left has 2 boxed-out beams with panelled soffits to front and rear, ground floor centre has 2 plastered beams with applied run plaster cornice, 2 plastered beams to rear. Interior to right has 2 cross-axial heavy moulded beams, probably C16 or early C17 to ground floor front, one chamfered spine beam with run out stop to first floor front, one cross-axial heavy unmoulded beam to ground floor rear. Oxfam shop to front has C20 staircase and C20 shopfittings. Access to first floor flat not possible.

Listing NGR: SP0225702052

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Legacy System number:: 365473
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.