Newsquest’s historic Cirencester office is up for sale.

The office on Dyer Street , a grade II listed building, has been given a guide price of £600,000

It is for sale by informal tender with offers due by noon on Tuesday, November 27.

A number of open viewings have been arranged when you can inspect the property internally and details of these can be found on Perry Bishop and Chambers’ website.

Before the office closed last year it was the home of the Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard for well over a century.

Built in 1904 and designed by Vincent Alexander Lawson, President of the Incorporated Institute of Architects and Surveyors, the office brought together the newspaper’s printing and publishing arms for the first time.

Established Malmesbury in 1837 the paper moved to Cirencester in 1840. The Standard was initially published from another address in Dyer Street, the residence of its proprietor, and later at various other addresses in Cirencester.

The new offices were designed in a domestic revival style, to fit a constrained, narrow site on Dyer Street between existing buildings.

The rear of the offices led into a yard facing the rear of the printing sheds which occupied much of the site.

The offices and the printing sheds remained in use through the 20th century.

In the 1980s, the print sheds were partly demolished and remodelled into offices and domestic units.

In 1990, the offices range was extended by the addition of a two-storey range to the rear to provide additional office space.

The building is largely unaltered since completion, except for the loss of fireplaces and this is one of the reasons it was listed bt Historic England earlier this year.

Standard journalists, equipped with laptops and mobile phones, now work on the move, attending meetings, interviewing people and hearing their stories just as they always have.

They have a base in Stroud, but can be contacted by email (news@wiltsglosstandard.co.uk) or phone (01285 627319) and regularly hold drop-in sessions in Cirencester and Malmesbury.