The Stores

COLN ST ALDWYNS THE GREEN SP 1405-1505 (west side) 12/149 The Stores II House and shop. Part mid-late C16; mostly rebuilt and enlarged c1870 for Sir M.E. Hicks Beach. Random rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys; stone slate roof. Two-storey; shop at east end. Front: parapet gabled end facing The Green with gablets to kneelers. Projecting late C19 shop front to ground floor with hipped roof. Attached spear-topped iron railing enclosure. Upper floor 3-light casement with round arched lights, bold hood moulding and segmental relieving arch; carved Hicks Beach monogram above, date now illegible. Gable-mounted chimney with carved corbels to moulded cap. Sides: mixed 2 and 3-light chamfered mullioned casement fenestration. Upper floor fixed- light with Gothick glazing bars appears earlier than C19 enlargement, probably early C19 insertion in original building. Some indications of blocked window openings on north side of earliest part. West end: parapet gabled end with original C16 3- light mullioned upper floor casement having 4-central arched lights; some roughcast render. Interior: no earlier features retained upon c1870 rebuilding. Said to stand on site of church house. Building at west end could be a fragment of this. Important position at centre of village. (A.R.J. Jurica, 'Coln St Aldwyns' in V.C.H. Glos vii, 1981, pp. 44-55)

Listing NGR: SP1453805207