12 And 14, Park Street

CIRENCESTER

SP0202 PARK STREET 578-1/4/268 (South side) 14/06/48 Nos.12 AND 14 (Formerly Listed as: PARK STREET (South side) No.12) (Formerly Listed as: PARK STREET (South side) No.14)

GV II

House, now offices, and attached wing, probably 2 cottages originally, now offices and caretakers flat. Late C17/early C18 with later additions and alterations; cottages probably late C18. Main range (No.12) is coursed squared limestone; stone slate roof; rebuilt stone right-end stack and external stone left-end stack with upper part rebuilt in brick. No.14 to left is coursed limestone rubble; Welsh slate roof; brick left-end stack. Main range is 2 storeys, attic and cellar; 5-window range. First floor has 5 late C18 6/6-pane sashes in moulded stone architraves with projecting keystones and moulded stone cills. 4 similar windows to ground floor. Central 6-panel door set in timber panel with pilaster strips to left and right and fanlight over is deeply recessed in panelled reveal within stone architrave similar to windows with pilaster strips to left and right which probably supported cornice, now gone. Four 2-light beaded stone-mullion openings, each light with 2 vertical iron bars, to basement below ground floor windows. 3 gabled dormers with moulded timber cornices and 2-light casements with C20 leading. Moulded stone drip course over ground floor; moulded timber eaves cornice. Rear elevation has 2 gabled wings and C19 and C20 additions; one 3-light chamfered stone mullion-and-transom window on first floor of wing to left, similar window in right gable. No.14 to left is 2 storeys, attic and cellar; 2-window range. First floor has 2-light timber glazing bar casement in plain reveal with exposed timber lintel and projecting cill to right, C20 three-light timber glazing bar casement to left in similar reveal with concrete lintel. Ground floor has small C19 three-light shop window with timber mullions in plain reveal with concrete cill to right, to centre uncer continuous timber lintel C19 2/2-pane horned sash window with chamfered reveal in former doorway, C20 three-light timber window to left. 4-panel door with single-pane overlight in chamfered reveal to centre. 2 raking dormers with C20 three- and four-light timber casements. Shallow ashlar plinth with cast-iron grille to cellar to left, C19 cast-iron footscraper to right of door. INTERIOR has undergone C20 alterations; mid C18 closed string staircase with turned balusters; late C18 moulded stone chimneypiece with applied decoration in ground floor right; early C19 painted fire surround in first floor right. Front range and 2 rear wings have late C17/early C18 roof structure with curved principals in front range. Interior of No.14 not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP0214802041