24, 26 AND 28, THOMAS STREET

A group of offices dating to the 15th and 16th centuries, with later alterations, stands on Thomas Street in Cirencester. The building is constructed of coursed squared limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, and has stone slate roofs with coped verges. It presents an L-shaped plan, with the range to the right likely dating to the 15th century and the range to the left, with a gable facing, to the 16th century, and a later wing added to the rear left.

The front elevation, facing Thomas Street, is two storeys with an attic, and features a three-window range. The first floor has a single-light casement to the right, a similar two-light casement to the left, and a two-light chamfered mullion-and-transom window to the left, featuring pointed lights with cusped heads set within a four-centred arched head, the hoodmould of which has been cut back. The ground floor displays two 19th-century two-light timber casements, a plank door in an ovolo-moulded surround with a four-centred arched head, and a 20th-century door and window. A leaded-light lancet window is set into the gable to the left.

The left side of the building exhibits four two-light leaded casements in chamfered stone reveals with near-round heads, which may have previously included tracery to match the first floor window on the front left, cut out in Tudor-arched reveals with hoodmoulds, likely dating to the early 19th century, and featuring rosette stops. The ground floor of this range includes a two-light chamfered mullion-and-transom window with leaded lights, three similar windows without mullions or transoms (one with a two-light casement, two with 6/6-pane sashes), and a small chamfered single-light window with a leaded casement. A plinth with a chamfered top is present, with trefoil stops to the copings.

The rear wing to the left includes a first-floor window with a nine-pane fixed light, ground floor windows with similar fixed lights and three-pane fixed lights, and a 20th-century four-panel door, all set in plain reveals with exposed timber lintels, with windows to the left and centre set within blocked former doorways.

Interior alterations were undertaken in 1990. The ground floor front left includes heavy chamfered cross beams, two doorways to the rear, one with a steep Tudor arched head, the other with a four-centred arched head, flanking a fireplace opening with moulded jambs and no grate. Further rear left, a late 18th-century stone chimneypiece with an eared architrave, frieze, moulded cornice, and a small 19th-century grate is visible. A later section of the ground floor rear left contains an unchamfered beam and a chamfered stone fireplace.