29, Sheep Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1971. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
29, Sheep Street
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-step-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1971
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- 29, Sheep Street, Cirencester, GL7 1QW
- OS grid reference
- SP 021 017
- Coordinates
- 51.71456, -1.97071
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
29 Sheep Street is a former public house, known as the Railway Inn, now used as commercial premises. It dates from the late 17th century to early 18th century, with later alterations. The front is made of limestone ashlar, while the sides and wing are constructed from coursed squared limestone rubble. The building has a concrete tile roof, featuring a large rendered ridge stack and a stack on the rear slope.
The main range includes a contemporary wing to the right, which was previously listed as No. 31 Sheep Street. The structure has two storeys, an attic, and a cellar, with a four-window range. The first floor has four 2-light chamfered stone mullion and transom windows with 19th-century iron casements. The ground floor features three 20th-century three- and four-light timber mullion and transom windows in large openings with concrete lintels, along with a 20th-century hardwood door with an overlight in a plain reveal to the centre right. The ashlar on the ground floor is considerably disturbed.
There are three gabled dormers with 2-light timber casements, a moulded string course over the ground floor, and a large coved eaves cornice. The wing to the right, formerly No. 31 Sheep Street, is two storeys high with two windows. The first floor has one 2-light chamfered stone-mullion window similar to the main range and one 2-light timber casement. The ground floor has two 20th-century two-light timber mullion and transom windows with concrete lintels, with the left window likely in a blocked former doorway. There is a blocked former opening to the cellar under the right-hand window.
At the rear, there is a one-storey and attic lean-to extension, and a gabled wing with a rendered stack at the back of the former No. 31 Sheep Street. The interior has been mostly inspected and shows significant alterations from the 20th century, including a mid-19th-century stick baluster staircase with later modifications and no fireplaces. The ground floor front left has an unstopped chamfered beam, and there is also an unstopped chamfered beam on the first floor front.
Local climate
29, Sheep Street receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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