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

• Gloucester Court of Probate at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q20878140

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