3 And 5, Dyer Street

CIRENCESTER

SP0202 DYER STREET 578-1/4/130 (North side) 14/06/48 Nos.3 AND 5 (Formerly Listed as: DYER STREET (North side) No.3) (Formerly Listed as: DYER STREET (North side) No.5 RDC Offices)

GV II

2 houses, now offices. Late C18 to left (No.3), probably early C19 to right (No.5). Limestone ashlar; Welsh slate hipped parapeted roofs; ashlar stacks with moulded tops to right side of each building, 2 to left (No.3), one to right (No.5). To left (No.3), 5-bay Palladian villa with 3 bays to centre broken forward with pediment over; 3-storey 5-window range. First floor has five 6/6-pane sashes in plain reveals; second floor has 5 similar 3/6-pane sashes. Ground floor has four 6/6-pane sashes in moulded stone architraves with stone cills. 6-panel door to centre with decorative fanlight in doorcase with Doric pilasters and open pediment. Rusticated quoins to ground floor left and right angles; shallow plinth; band courses over ground and first floors; cill bands to first and second floors; modillion eaves cornice and pediment; blocking course. To right (No.5), 5-bay house with shallow break forward to centre, 3 bays; 3-storey 7-window range. First floor has five 6/6-pane sashes in plain reveals, to centre flanked by similar 4/4-pane sashes; second floor has five similar 3/6-pane sashes with stone cills, to centre flanked by similar 2/4-pane sashes. Ground floor has four 6/6-pane sashes in plain reveals with stone cills, to centre Doric portico with 4 columns to front, respond of 2 pilasters, with applied C20 lettering EWBANK HOUSE to frieze, with 6-panel door in plain reveal with small 2/4-pane sashes in plain reveals to left and right. Shallow plinth; band courses over ground and first floors; cill band to first floor; moulded stone eaves cornice and coped parapet. 3 has deep plan with rear elevation in coursed squared limestone with 6/6-pane sashes in flat unmoulded surrounds; No.5 has 2 storeys and attic rear wing with hipped roof, shallow bow to rear elevation of main range, 6/6-pane sashes in flat unmoulded stone surrounds. INTERIOR not inspected. (Clifton-Taylor A: Another Six English Towns: London: 1984-: P.34).

Listing NGR: SP0247102018