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Jesse Smith and Company

Jesse Smith and Company, 14, 16 and 18, Black Jack Street

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298729
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1991
List Entry Name:: Jesse Smith and Company
Statutory Address:: Jesse Smith and Company, 14, 16 and 18, Black Jack Street

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298729
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1991
List Entry Name:: Jesse Smith and Company
Statutory Address 1:: Jesse Smith and Company, 14, 16 and 18, Black Jack 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:: Jesse Smith and Company, 14, 16 and 18, Black Jack 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:: SP0218102072

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31/05/2019

SP0202 578-1/4/17

CIRENCESTER BLACK JACK STREET (north side) Nos. 14, 16 and 18 Jesse Smith and Company

(Formerly listed as Nos. 14, 16 and 18 Jessie Smith and Company)

09/07/91

GV II Shop with flats over. Late C18 to left, early/mid C19 to right. To right, limestone ashlar; concrete tile roof; reconstituted stone left- and right-end stacks; to left, lined-out stucco to front; concrete tile roof; brick right-end stack. To right, three storey four window range; first floor has four C19 2/2-pane horned sashes in plain reveals with stone cills; second floor has four similar windows. Ground floor has early C20 shopfront with twelve-pane window with louvred panels above, stall riser with three cast-iron grilles, brass plate to centre with lettering SMITH; four-panel door to left with single-pane overlight with painted glass with lettering SMITHS 6; pair of plank doors to right with iron bar grille panels; shopfront surround has four panelled and reeded pilaster strips, heavy console brackets flanking frieze with blind box and moulded cornice.

Building to left is three storey three window range; first floor has three two-light timber glazing bar casements in plain reveals, to left with projecting cill, two windows to right shortened to accommodate shopfront below; three similar windows to second floor. Ground floor has 8/8-pane sash in similar reveal and four4-panel door with single-pane overlight to left, to right shopfront in similar surround to right has plate glass window to left with round-section timber mullions with shaped bases and tops with brackets, ventilation grille over; half-glazed door with wrought-iron grille over glass, cast-iron grille overlight; tiled stall riser and reveal to door have lettered panels PORK BUTCHERS and PICKLED TONGUES and painted tile panel with pigs head, Art Nouveau tiles in panels of pilasters.

Entrance to through-passage to left of shopfront has panels of Art Nouveau ironwork at head of opening, simple wrought-iron gate, panel over with etched lettering behind glass HOME MADE SAUSAGES; similar panels in friezes of both shopfronts have lettering JESSE SMITH & CO FAMILY BUTCHERS ESTABLISHED 1808.

INTERIORS not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP0218102072

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

Legacy System number:: 365156
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.