11 Dollar Street / 11,15 And 17 Dollar Street

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

CIRENCESTER

SP0202 DOLLAR STREET 578-1/4/115 (West side) 23/07/71 No.11 (Formerly Listed as: DOLLAR STREET Nos.11, 15 AND 17)

GV II

Bakery, shop and living accommodation. Possibly mid-C15; alterations, additions and rebuilding of late C17 and C19. Coursed squared limestone, now painted, to front; stucco to rear and rear wing. Welsh slate roof; no stacks visible to front. Mid C15 street-front range, refaced C18/early C19, has late C17/early C18 wing to rear left; early/mid-C19 extension to rear right. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. First floor has three C19 2/2-pane horned sashes in plain reveals; ground floor has C20 hardwood shopfront to left with plate glass windows and glazed door to centre; carriage entrance to right. Two gabled dormers with C19 2-light timber casements. Band course over first floor. Late C17 rear wing has C19 four-light timber mullion-and-transom windows to ground and first floors of side elevation; coved timber eaves cornice. C19 addition to rear of main range has two 6/6-pane sashes in plain reveals with vermiculated keyed lintels to first floor; C19 2-light casement in similar reveal to ground floor. INTERIOR has C19 winder stair from ground to first floor; early C18 closed string well staircase with turned balusters, upstanding handrail and continuous chamfered newels from first to second floor. Ground floor front, now shop, has 2 heavy chamfered cross beams; chamfered axial bridging beam in bay to left has diagonal cut stop, similar beam in bay to right unstopped; heavy joists in end bays. Bridging beam and joists in central bay, originally open to roof, smaller section. 3-bay roof structure visible in bays to centre and right only; heavy smoke-blackened principals; diagonal ridge purlin; heavy butt-purlins; collars renewed. Remnants of two tiers of windbraces in central bay; lower tier only in bay to right. Rear slope has some renewed rafters; rafters to front slope renewed when building refaced and roof pitch altered. Hollowed stone eaves gutter now inside front slope. Closed truss to right end has early collar and studded infill, possibly early.

Listing NGR: SP0217802214

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0750 IOE Records taken by Lorna Freeman; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Lorna Freeman. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project