Description

1.
4412 CROOMS HILL SE10
(West Side)

Nos 26, 28, 30
TQ 3877 26/G28 19.10.51.

II GV

2.
No 26. Late C18. 3 storeys, 4 windows. Red brick with stone cornice and rebuilt
parapet. Stone band at 1st floor cills. Brick 1st floor band. Front largely
rebuilt above 1st floor cill band. Gauged flat arches to recessed mid C19 sash
windows with vertical glazing bars. Prostyle Doric porch with dentil cornice.
Corresponding rear pilasters have foliated capitals. Door of 4 fielded and 2
flat panels, with cornice head and rectangular fanlight carrying radial pattern,
in panelled reveal. Small wrought iron railing over porch. Wrought iron area
railings. Yellow stock brick return to Gloucester Circus has 5 blank windows
on 1st and 2nd floors. Pediment with brick roundel in tympanum. Stone panel
in base of chimney with incised Roman lettering "CIRCUS". No 28 Mid-late C18.
3 storeys, 4 windows. Multicoloured stock brick with rebuilt parapet. Slated
mansard roof. Brick cornice band. Moulded stucco band at 2nd floor. Renewed
sash windows with glazing bars in old box frames, slightly recessed, except on
ground floor which has original sashes. 6-panel door, the 2 upper panels glazed,
with cornice head and patterned rectangular fanlight, in panelled reveal. Doric
porch with square columns and wreaths in frieze, probably later. Plain, wrought
iron area railings. No 30 Mid-late C18. 3 storeys, attic and basement, 3 windows.
Slate mansard roof with 3 flat dormers. Renewed wood modillion cornice below
parapet. Multicoloured stock brick, stuccoed basement. Gauged flat brick arches
to renewed sash windows with glazing bars in flush frames. Later 4-panel door
under cornice head continuing through fielded, panelled reveals. Plain rectangular
fanlight. Wood doorcase of attached Doric columns, pulvinated frieze, bracketed
cornice and pediment. 2-storey, 1-window set back left extension obscured by
mid C19 addition of 2 narrow round-arched windows, sashes with margin lights,
in round arched recesses. Dentil cornice at 1st floor level. Louvred door at
ground floor level. Wrought iron, lancehead area railings.

All the listed buildings on the West Side of Crooms Hill from Nos 6 to 46 (even)
and Nos 38 and 40 form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ3847877368

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26350414

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