3 And 5, Castle Street

CIRENCESTER

SP0202 CASTLE STREET 578-1/4/25 (South side) Nos.3 AND 5

GV II

Shop with office and storage over. Late C18 with C17 origins and later alterations. Painted limestone ashlar and stucco to front; stone slate roof to right, artificial slate to left; brick ridge stack to right shared with 7 Castle Street (qv). Shop is in two buildings; 2-storey and attic, 2-window range to left with C17 origins; 3-storey 2-window range to right is one build with No.7 Castle Street (qv). First floor has two 3-light C20 leaded windows in plain reveals to left; two C19 plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals to right. Second floor to right only has two C20 two-light casements in plain reveals; to left two gabled dormers with C20 2-light leaded casements. Ground floor has C20 shopfront, c1930s, in timber with plate glass windows with bronze glazing bars and polished black stall riser. To far left door with 6 flush panels in beaded timber surround. INTERIOR has two C20 oak staircases from ground to first and first to second floors; C20 oak shop fittings to ground floor. Boxed-out beams to ground floor; four rough beams without chamfers to first floor right. Roof structure to left is C19 over remaining principals of two trusses of earlier, probably C17, roof of steeper pitch, no collars or purlins now remain. Evidence of ridge purlin and mortices in truss to left for butt purlins; black deposit around mortice possibly smoke-blackening. Range to right has 5-bay roof structure to rear which is partially C18 with some trenched and some threaded purlins, heavily repaired C19/C20 with plank ridge. Three bays of similar roof with plank ridge partially visible in front range.

Listing NGR: SP0226202008