Description

CIRENCESTER

SP0202 PARK STREET
578-1/4/268 (South side)
14/06/48 Nos.12 AND 14
(Formerly Listed as:
PARK STREET
(South side)
No.12)
(Formerly Listed as:
PARK STREET
(South side)
No.14)

GV II

House, now offices, and attached wing, probably 2 cottages
originally, now offices and caretakers flat. Late C17/early
C18 with later additions and alterations; cottages probably
late C18.
Main range (No.12) is coursed squared limestone; stone slate
roof; rebuilt stone right-end stack and external stone
left-end stack with upper part rebuilt in brick. No.14 to left
is coursed limestone rubble; Welsh slate roof; brick left-end
stack.
Main range is 2 storeys, attic and cellar; 5-window range.
First floor has 5 late C18 6/6-pane sashes in moulded stone
architraves with projecting keystones and moulded stone cills.
4 similar windows to ground floor. Central 6-panel door set in
timber panel with pilaster strips to left and right and
fanlight over is deeply recessed in panelled reveal within
stone architrave similar to windows with pilaster strips to
left and right which probably supported cornice, now gone.
Four 2-light beaded stone-mullion openings, each light with 2
vertical iron bars, to basement below ground floor windows. 3
gabled dormers with moulded timber cornices and 2-light
casements with C20 leading. Moulded stone drip course over
ground floor; moulded timber eaves cornice.
Rear elevation has 2 gabled wings and C19 and C20 additions;
one 3-light chamfered stone mullion-and-transom window on
first floor of wing to left, similar window in right gable.
No.14 to left is 2 storeys, attic and cellar; 2-window range.
First floor has 2-light timber glazing bar casement in plain
reveal with exposed timber lintel and projecting cill to
right, C20 three-light timber glazing bar casement to left in
similar reveal with concrete lintel. Ground floor has small
C19 three-light shop window with timber mullions in plain
reveal with concrete cill to right, to centre uncer continuous
timber lintel C19 2/2-pane horned sash window with chamfered
reveal in former doorway, C20 three-light timber window to
left. 4-panel door with single-pane overlight in chamfered
reveal to centre. 2 raking dormers with C20 three- and
four-light timber casements. Shallow ashlar plinth with
cast-iron grille to cellar to left, C19 cast-iron footscraper
to right of door.
INTERIOR has undergone C20 alterations; mid C18 closed string
staircase with turned balusters; late C18 moulded stone
chimneypiece with applied decoration in ground floor right;
early C19 painted fire surround in first floor right. Front
range and 2 rear wings have late C17/early C18 roof structure
with curved principals in front range. Interior of No.14 not
inspected.

Listing NGR: SP0214802041

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501706

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
• 
  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas