Dunstall House

CIRENCESTER

SP0202 PARK STREET 578-1/4/277 (North side) 23/07/71 Dunstall House

GV II

House. Early/mid C17 and mid C18 with later alterations. Coursed squared limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; stone slate hipped roof to the front range; stone right end stack to front range, rebuilt brick stack to rear range. House has courtyard plan with front range to street rebuilt mid-C18; wing to rear left and rear range are probably early/mid-C17. 3 storeys, attic and cellar; 3-window range. Three 8/8-pane sashes in moulded stone architraves to first floor; 3 similar 4/4-pane sashes in similar architraves to second floor. Ground floor has 2 8/8-pane sashes in moulded stone architraves with frieze and cornice and stone cills to left and right; central 6-panel door with decorative fanlight in moulded stone doorcase with Doric pilasters and open pediment, arrises of pilasters and bases now rounded off. One hipped dormer with 2-light timber casement. 2 blocked oval openings to cellar in flat unmoulded stone surrounds beneath ground floor windows; shallow ashlar plinth. Cill bands to first and second floors. Modillion cornice and coped parapet; rusticated quoins to left and right angles. Rear elevation has 2 gables; windows largely renewed and possibly altered C20; 3-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullion window with hoodmould to first floor right, similar 2-light window in gable above. INTERIOR has undergone C20 alteration, probably much in 1920's. Early/mid-C17 oak well staircase with pierced flat tapering balusters with Ionic capitals, pierced pendant drops and ball finials, refixed and possibly moved in 1920's in rear left wing. Ground floor room to rear range has early/mid C17 oak panelling with applied moulding forming eared panels, moulded dado rail and timber cornice, C20 timber surround in matching style to moulded stone fireplace, 2-panel door; first floor room to rear range has early/mid C18 panelling, stone bolection-moulded fireplace, 2 plastered beams with chamfers with run-out stops with notches with plaster leaf decoration (cf Nos 9-17 Market Place, The Old Grammar School (qv)); similar beam without leaf to first floor landing. C17 panelled doors to side and rear ranges; mid-late C18 interior to first floor front left.

Listing NGR: SP0210102065