50, 52 AND 54, CHESTER STREET

A terrace of three houses on Chester Street, Cirencester, built in the mid-19th century. The front is faced with limestone ashlar, while the sides are of coursed squared limestone rubble. The roofs are slate, with an ashlar stack on the left end, a brick ridge stack, and a right-end stack rebuilt in concrete blockwork. Number 50 projects slightly forward. The houses are three storeys high, with a cellar, and feature a six-window front. The first floor has six 6/6-pane sash windows in plain reveals with projecting cills; the second floor has six similar 3/3-pane sash windows. The ground floor has three 6/6-pane sash windows and three 4-panel doors with single-pane overlights, all set within round-headed openings. A doorway to the through-passage is set in a square-headed reveal towards the centre. There are three cellar openings under the ground floor windows, although the opening to the right (Number 50) is now blocked. The front has an ashlar plinth and band courses above the ground and first floors. The interior has not been inspected. The houses do not appear on the first edition Ordnance Survey map surveyed in 1875 but are reported to date from the 1860s.