Description

CIRENCESTER

SP0101 CIRENCESTER PARK
578-1/5/348 Kennels Cottage, Whips Cottage and
attached ranges of kennels

GV II

Kennels with attached house, now houses and offices. Dated
1837. Coursed squared limestone; clay tile roofs with coped
verges; 2 ashlar ridge stacks with moulded tops, 2 similar
lateral stacks to centre of front range, 3 similar stacks on
kennel ranges to rear, one rebuilt in concrete blockwork.
Residential front range facing Tetbury Road has 3 ranges of
kennels around 3 courtyards to rear; 3 gables to front, one to
centre, one breaking forward slightly to centre of each
flanking wing.
Front range is 3-storey to centre flanked by 2 single-storey
wings. First floor has one 2-light chamfered stone mullion
window with C19 iron casements, one similar window to second
floor. Ground floor has one similar 3-light
mullion-and-transom window to centre, one similar 2-light
mullion-and-transom window in gabled bay to centre of each
flanking wing; wing to left has 2 similar 3- and one 2-light
stone mullion windows, wing to right has 2 similar 3-light
windows. Plinth; flush quoins to all angles. Trefoil symbol
carved in relief in each gable, to centre also with coronet
and date 1837. Base of wrought-iron weather vane at apex of
centre gable.
Single-storey ranges of kennels to rear have 3 gables to right
side with string course over ground floor, walled yards
between ranges of building entered by 3 plank doors in plain
reveals with heavy stone lintels projecting above coping of
wall, to centre surmounted by stone figure of fox.
Attached cottage to rear left is coursed squared limestone
with timber-framing in gable, clay tile roof, gable facing;
ashlar ridge stack with moulded top. Single-storey and attic,
one-window range. Ground floor has one 3-light chamfered
stone-mullion window with C19 iron casements, hoodmould with
relieving arch over. 3-light timber casement in gable. Plank
door to right in chamfered stone surround with floating
cornice over. Plinth with chamfered top, flush quoins to left
and right angles. Brattished collar over gable window.
Timber-framed dormer with 3-light timber casement on right
slope of roof. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP0147901574

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26482612

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)