Description

KING STREET
1
1380
(North Side)
No 23
TR 3571 SW 2/10 15.12.70.

II GV

2.
A fine early C19 house, originally the brewer's house to Cobbs' brewery.
It was here that William Pitt the Younger was entertained. 2 parallel ranges.
3 storeys and basement stock brick. Stone parapet. 5 sashes with vertical
glazing bars only. Stone cills. Stringcourse above ground floor. Fine
central Adamesque doorcase. Cornice of modillions and frieze having a swag
pattern with oval paterae at the ends. 2 stylizied composite reeded pilasters.
Panelled reveals. Semi-circular fanlight with glazing bars. Underneath is
a band of reeding and paterae. 6 panelled door with fielded panels, 2 now
missing. Interesting doorknocker. 4 restored steps and 2 interesting scrolled
footscrapers. Plinth. Rear has rainwater head. The interior contains the
original mahogany staircase with wrought iron scrolled balusters, and the
ground floor retains traces of a frieze of cherubs swags and cornucopia.

Nos 15 to 35 (odd) and No 91 Trinity Square form a group

Listing NGR: TR3545871096

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26386970

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair