Fleece Hotel

CIRENCESTER

SP0202 MARKET PLACE 578-1/4/242 (North side) 14/06/48 Nos.41 AND 43 Fleece Hotel (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE (North side) No.41 Grove Garage) (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE (North side) No.43 Fleece Hotel)

GV II

Hotel. Mid C17, mid C18 and late C19 with C20 alterations. Coursed squared limestone to left, stucco over timber-framing to centre, stucco to right; clay tile roof to left and centre, to left with coped verges, Welsh slate roof to right; groups of 3 ashlar flues to left and right ends to left, C19 brick right-end stack rebuilt on stone base to centre, brick left- and right-end stacks to right. Hotel occupies 3 buildings. To left, late C19, 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. First floor has three 2-light chamfered stone mullion and transom windows with iron casements in chamfered stone surrounds; three gabled half-dormers with similar 2-light stone mullion-and-transom windows with pointed heads to upper lights. Ground floor has C20 glazing in shopfront style with four 6/3-pane sashes and half-glazed door recessed to right in timber surround with pilasters, frieze and moulded cornice. To centre, mid C17, 2 gables to front, 2 3-storey bay windows, 3 storeys and attic; 3-window range. First floor has one C20 two-light casement to centre, similar 4-light glazing to front of bay windows to left and right with similar single-light returns. Second floor has similar windows. Ground floor has similar arrangement of C20 windows, to bays divided by timber mullions. 2 similar 2-light windows in gables. Shallow plinth; moulded timber cornices breaking forward around bays over each of the ground, first and second floors; Welsh slate roofs to bays. Building to right is mid C18, 3 storeys and attic; 4-window range. First floor has four 6/6-pane sashes in plain reveals with projecting cills; second floor has four similar 3/6-pane sashes. Ground floor has 3 similar 6/6-pane sashes to right, carriage entrance to left with pair of plank doors, C20 glazed doors to interior. 3 hipped dormers with 2-light casements. Deep plinth; band courses over ground and first floors; coved plaster eaves cornice. INTERIORS not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP0242502032