19 And 21, Market Place

CIRENCESTER

SP0202 MARKET PLACE 578-1/4/233 (North side) 23/07/71 Nos.19 AND 21

GV II

2 shops with offices over. Late C18/early C19 with medieval origins and later alterations. Stucco to front; Welsh slate hipped roof, artificial slate to rear; two stone axial stacks to rear. 3 storeys and attic; 5-window range. First floor has five C19 2/2-pane horned sashes in plain reveals with projecting cills; second floor has three 3/3-pane late C18/ early C19 sashes to left, two C19 2/2-pane horned sshes to right, all in plain reveals with projecting cills. Ground floor has 2 shopfronts; to left (No.19) projecting shopfront in early C19 style has windows with glazing bars flanking central glazed door in surround with pilasters to left and right with re-used C19 Corinthian capitals, frieze with blind box and moulded timber cornice; to right C20 aluminium shopfront has glazed door to left leading to offices on upper floors (No.21). Two hipped dormers with C20 two-light windows. Timber modillion eaves cornice. C20 single-storey extension to rear. INTERIOR has 6-panel door with panels now glazed in reeded architrave with decorative fanlight over with early C19 coloured glazing to entrance hall (No.21), early C19 six-panel door in moulded timber architrave to first floor landing, first floor rooms have C19 marble fireplace flanked by arched niches, that to right forming doorway to rear room, and run cornice to front right, reeded cornice and C20 fireplace to front left, small stone fireplace now in passage to rear left. Second floor has 2 doors to front right rooms each of 2 raised-and-fielded panels and boxed-out beams; second floor rear left in roof space of rear wing has 2 bays of roof structure partially visible with post and rafter truss with stub tie beam and curved windbraces, collar and structure above concealed by later ceiling, presumed arch braces now missing. Probable remains of roof of hall behind front range to Market Place, now rebuilt. (Harris R: Discovering Timber-Framed Buildings: Aylesbury: 1978-: P.53).

Listing NGR: SP0236902062