Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW PITT STREET
844-1/8/237 (North side)
12/03/73 Nos.3 AND 4

GV II

Court of Probate, now offices. 1858. By Fulljames and Waller.
Rock-faced rubble in courses with dressed stone features and
details, steeply- pitched hipped and gabled red tiled roofs
with projecting, timber-lined eaves, two triangular dormers on
the outer slopes of the roof of the main block of No.3 and
decorative wrought-iron cresting to its ridge, ashlar stacks
with clustered flue shafts. Picturesque Gothic style. Units of
various sizes placed to fit corner site; the major unit a
large block at east end with a steeply pitched, hipped roof;
the other units set back to west and north.
EXTERIOR: one and two storeys designed for romantic medieval
effect; offset plinth with chamfered ashlar capping; entrances
in the assymetrical front facing Pitt Street; entrance to
No.3, approximately in the centre, is a gabled porch with
arched doorway and hoodmould, to left of the porch the
single-storey main block. On the front of the main block a
window of eight arched lights of the same size and with
trefoiled heads, the stone jambs and mullions faced with
marble shafts supporting the outer mouldings to the arches. On
the front of No.3 an inscription in a stone panel in raised
Gothic lettering: "Gloucester Court of Probate MDCCCVIII"
INTERIOR: entrance lobby to No.3 with encaustic tile floor, on
right the main block a single chamber with a high open timber
roof, the feet of the trusses restrained by a system of iron
tie rods; the lights of windows on the entrance front and east
are framed by polished marble shafts as on the exterior; oriel
windows. Only the interior of the main block inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8326618805

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Gloucester Court of Probate at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q20878140

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