Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW PITT STREET
844-1/8/238 (North side)
23/01/52 No.5
(Formerly Listed as:
PITT STREET
Nos.5 TO 13 (Consecutive))

GV II

House, now part of public school boarding house, linked with
and entered from Paddock House, Pitt Street (qv) adjoining to
right. Late C18, minor mid C19 alterations. Brick, hipped
tiled roof, gabled roof dormer, brick stack. A small block and
wing wing to left enclosing small, brick-walled forecourt.
EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic; on the front of main block
and wing to left, a stone eaves cornice with close-set
modillions, the entrance doorway, possibly inserted, in the
main block adjoining wing, the doorway formerly within a
single-storey porch in the re-entrant angle as indicated by
scars on the wall faces; on the first floor above the doorway
a small side-hung sash with glazing bars (3x2 panes), in the
front of the wing on each floor a mid C19 horned sash with
central, vertical glazing bar, both sashes in original
openings with contrasting, red brick quoins to jambs, rubbed
brick, segmental-arched heads and with projecting sills; to
front of wing on hipped roof the dormer with pair of mid C19
casements. At rear on each floor a sash with glazing bars to
right (3x4 panes); to left on first floor a two-light
timber-framed window with a sash with glazing bars (2x4 pane)
in each light.
INTERIOR: some original joinery.

Listing NGR: SO8320818862

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538191

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)