8 And 8A, Thomas Street

Two houses located on Thomas Street, Cirencester, were built in the early, mid, and late 18th century. The house on the right is constructed of coursed squared limestone, while the house on the left is of coursed squared limestone rubble. Both have stone slate roofs; the right house has a stone ridge stack and a rebuilt brick stack on a rear wing, and the left house has a rebuilt brick ridge stack. The house to the right is two storeys with an attic and cellars, boasting a seven-window front. The first floor features seven six-over-six sash windows within moulded stone surrounds, while the ground floor has a similar arrangement of six windows. The window on the far left is a later addition, inserted into a former opening with a basket-arched head. The front door has a cross-shaped design formed by quadrant mouldings on a stone surround. An oval opening provides access to the cellar, located to the left of the door, and a rectangular opening is present to the right. A moulded string runs above the ground floor, topped by a coved timber eaves cornice. The rear elevation displays two gabled wings and a late 18th-century single-storey canted bay extension inserted between them. The house to the left is two stories and four windows wide. Its first floor has four eight-over-eight sash windows in plain reveals with projecting stone cills; the ground floor has three six-over-six sash windows, also with projecting stone cills and flat, unmoulded stone surrounds. A six-panel door with a fanlight is set within a round-headed, unmoulded stone surround on the right. A shallow dressed stone plinth and a plat band run over the ground floor, and a moulded timber eaves cornice tops the building. The left side faces two round-headed door openings, one now blocked, and features a 19th-century round-headed fixed window with glazing bars to the first floor. The interiors remain uninspected.