Description

CIRENCESTER

SP0202 SILVER STREET
578-1/4/292 (North East side)
07/05/92 Nos.8,10,12,14,9 AND 26A

GV II

Includes: Nos.9, 11, 15 AND 17 BLACK JACK STREET.
Houses and corner shop. 1868-9 and 1895. By Alfred William
Maberly of Gloucester for Earl Bathurst; No.8 Silver Street
added in matching style 1895. Rock-faced limestone with ashlar
dressings; clay tile roofs; 9 ashlar ridge and end stacks with
moulded tops, one similar stack to rear of Black Jack Street
range. Long ranges to Silver Street and Black Jack Street meet
at angle of streets with shop on corner.
Silver Street elevation is 2 storeys, attic and cellar;
10-window range. First floor has eight 2-light chamfered stone
mullion-and-transom windows with C19 iron casements with
hoodmoulds with relieving arches over, 2 similar single-light
windows. Ground floor has five similar 2-light windows and 3
similar single-light windows; 4 plank doors with C19
ironmongery including decorative strap hinges have single-pane
overlights in chamfered surrounds with hoodmoulds and
relieving arches; pair of similar doors to centre with
4-centred arched head in similar surround with hoodmould and
relieving arch. 8 gabled half-dormers with 2-light chamfered
stone mullion-and-transom windows with C19 iron casements with
canted heads to upper lights, moulded timber bargeboards with
fretwork decoration on timber brackets. Chamfered plinth;
moulded string over ground floor; 9 rectangular-section C19
cast-iron down pipes with decorative hopper heads.
Shop to left end of Silver Street elevation has 3-sided front
in matching style; one 2-light window and 2 flanking
single-light windows to first floor, one dormer window over.
Ground floor has 3-light shop window with decorative
quatrefoil panels below to centre, similar single-light window
to right, half-glazed door to left. Wrought-iron balconette
with anthemion decoration to first floor centre window;
wrought-iron weathervane at apex of roof.
Black Jack Street elevation is 10-window range in matching
style. INTERIORS not inspected.
(Gloucestershire Records Office: Agreement for erecting 3
cottages in Silver Street: 16th July: 1868-: D2525 BOX 37/49).

Listing NGR: SP0216202047

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26482719

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