6, MARKET PLACE
6, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298686
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 6, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 6, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298686
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 6, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6, MARKET PLACE
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:
- 6, 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:
- SP0230602026
Details
CIRENCESTER
SP0202 MARKET PLACE 578-1/4/229 (South side) No.6
GV II
Shop with offices. Late C17 and early/mid C19. Stucco to front and left side, possibly over timber-framing to rear of rear wing; Welsh slate parapeted roof, gable facing to front and rear ranges; rendered stack to right side of front range, rebuilt brick stack to rear. Front range is 4 storeys, 2-windows. First floor has two plate glass sashes in eared architraves with deep frieze and pediment over; second floor has 2 similar windows in eared architraves; third floor has 2 similar windows in moulded architraves with projecting cills on square brackets. Ground floor has C20 plate glass shopfront in mid C19 surround with pilaster strips to left and right with carved bracket tops supporting bracketed frieze with blind box and guilloche balustrade with 3 panelled dies. Entablature continuous over round-headed opening to left with keyed architrave supported on brackets. Panelled pilaster strips to left and right angles of building, moulded cill band to second floor formed into panelled cills below windows, rinceau frieze, moulded eaves cornice and coped parapet with dies to left and right angles. Rear wing has C19 sashes and C20 casements to left side; two 2-light timber mullion-and-transom windows, possibly late C17/early C18 now with C20 glazing to first floor; three raking dormers to left side. INTERIOR has early/mid C19 well staircase with winders from first to third floor with stick balusters, mahogany grip handrail, shaped cheek-pieces; first floor front has mid C19 bracketed marble fireplace, no grate, run cornice and ceiling rose; C19 marble fireplace to second floor front left; chamfered stone fireplaces to third floor front left and right. Rear wing has boxed-out cross-axial beams to ground floor, one exposed roughly chamfered; first floor rear has chamfered beam with run-out stops supported on bracketed top of probable wall post to left; roof structure to rear wing has curved principals, butt purlins and cranked collars. Rear wing originally building fronting Market Place with front range added after demolition of Shambles c1830, following Town Improvement Act of 1825. (Viner DJ: Cirencester As It Was: Nelson, Lancashire: 1983-: P 1&2).
Listing NGR: SP0231802004
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365365
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Viner, D J, Cirencester As It Was, (1983), 1 AND 2
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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