60 And 62, Parsonage Street

DURSLEY PARSONAGE STREET ST 7598 (south side) 5/55 Nos 60 and 62 26.1.84 GV II

Former rope walk, now shop, and market building. Early-mid C19; C20 shop front. Flemish bond red brick with blue plinth; corrugated iron roofs. Three-storey, reducing to 2 at rear with open arcaded ground floor. Front: single-window fenestration above C20 shop front; glazed 4-panel loading door to middle floor, 4-pane sash to upper floor; brick flat arches to both with cambered intrados. Stone coping and kneelers to parapet gable. West side: 4 weatherboarded panels alternating with brickwork. Large casement in middle floor of each panel with smaller casement above. Workshop glazing and glazed door to ground floor; random rubble base walls below panels with sandstone sills. Market building at rear is timber framed with triple clusters of timber posts; casement fenestration above. Market area has brick and concrete paving, stepped to facilitate the setting up of market stalls. A modest building architecturally but important for its visual effect and as a surviving record of former activity in this part of Dursley. Return block at south end largely destroyed in recent fire (1985) and no longer of special interest.

Listing NGR: ST7555898133