British Listed Buildings

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Listing Text

CIRENCESTER

SP0202 DOLLAR STREET
578-1/4/123 (East side)
14/06/48 Nos.30 AND 32
Dollar Street House and attached
steps, railing bases and ironwork
(Formerly Listed as:
DOLLAR STREET
No.30)
(Formerly Listed as:
DOLLAR STREET
No.32)

GV II*

Formerly known as: Dollar Street House DOLLAR STREET.
Offices, formerly house. Dated 1725 and early C19. Built by
the lawyer Joseph Pitt who developed Pittville Spa in
Cheltenha. Limestone ashlar to front, coursed squared
limestone to rear; Welsh slate hipped parapeted roofs; ashlar
right-end stack to right, ashlar ridge stacks to front and
rear ranges to left.
House dated 1725 to right more than doubled in size by early
C19 double-pile addition to left; last bay to left of 1725
range refaced to form bay to far right of early C19 range to
centre of building.
To right, 3 storeys, attic and cellar; 5-window range. First
floor has five late C18 6/6-pane sashes with fanlight tops in
moulded stone architraves with basket-arched heads with impost
blocks, keystones and moulded stone cills; second floor has 5
similar 4/4-pane sashes in similar architraves.
Ground floor has 4 similar 6/6-pane sashes to left, to right
door with 6 moulded panels with upper 2 panels glazed with
similar architrave flanked by two 2/2-pane sash windows with
moulded cills contained within similar architrave with impost
blocks and keystone with elliptical-arched head; approached
via stone steps and plat over basement area with balustrade
formed of late C18/early C19 wrought-iron panels incorporating
footscrapers; stone steps down to left lead to 6-panel door to
basement under front door. 2 dormers with lead-covered
segmental heads with 2-light casements. Plinth with moulded
top; plat bands on keystones of ground and first floor
windows; base moulding of eaves cornice breaks forward over
keystones of second floor windows. Moulded lead hopper head
now with plastic down-pipe to right dated 1725 with initials
CS.
To left, 3 storeys and cellar; 6-window range. 4 bays to
centre break forward slightly. First floor has six 6/6-pane
sashes in plian reveals with stone cills; second floor has 6
similar 3/6-pane sashes. Ground floor has 4 similar 6/6-pane
sashes to centre; to right pedimented Ionic porch on plat
approached by 4 stone steps, to left 6-panel door in moulded
stone architrave approached by 4 stone steps with simple
wrought-iron handrail to each side. One opening to cellar to
centre with stone steps leading to C20 door. Plinth with
moulded offset; moulded band courses over ground and first
floors; moulded stone eaves cornice; parapet with 7 dies.
Limestone railing bases attached to front support to centre
simple wrought-iron overthrow.
Rear elevation to left has 2-light chamfered stone mullion and
transom windows to second floor, lower windows with C19
alterations; later range has 6/6-pane sashes in flat unmoulded
stone surrounds.
INTERIOR has to left early C19 enriched marble chimneypieces
to ground floor front right and rear left and right;
cantilevered stone well staircase with wrought-iron balustrade
and mahogany grip handrail from ground to first floor with
matching balustrade to gallery over staircase to second floor;
stick baluster dog-leg back staircase; enriched marble
chimneypiece with Siena marble inlay to first floor rear
right; simple marble chimneypieces to first and second floor
front left and right and rear left.
Interior to right now approached via door to centre to ground
floor; former connections to upper floors currently disused.
Small winder staircase; first floor front left has applied
Adamesque decoration, probably late C19/early C20, in form of
plaster panels to walls, swagged frieze and dentil cornice;
enriched timber dado rail and architraves, C20 fireplace.
Cast-iron Adamesque chimneypiece to first floor rear possibly
refixed from front room; simple stone fireplaces to other
rooms; chamfered beams with run-out stops to second floor rear
left.
(The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The
Cotswolds: London: 1970-: P 178).


Listing NGR: SP0217502315

Source: English Heritage

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