7, Black Jack Street

No. 7 Black Jack Street is an early 18th-century house in Cirencester. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone, with an artificial slate roof and a rebuilt brick rear axial stack. A former left-end stack has been blocked. The house has two storeys, an attic, and a cellar, with a five-window front. The first floor has five two-light stone mullion-and-transom windows with moulded stone surrounds and stone cills. The ground floor has four six-pane sash windows in similar surrounds. An eight-panel door, now partially glazed, is set within a stone surround to the centre of the front elevation. A shallow ashlar plinth sits above a deeper plinth of coursed squared stone, itself containing two cellar openings. A moulded band course runs above the ground floor, and a coved timber eaves cornice runs along the top of the building. Three raking dormers are located at the rear. The interior has not been inspected. The house was probably built as one of a pair; the adjoining house to the left was demolished, but the lower part of its ground floor front wall remains, showing evidence of a similar plinth and openings.