Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8418NW LONDON ROAD 844-1/10/171 (South side) 23/01/52 Nos.78-90 (Even) York Buildings (Formerly Listed as: LONDON ROAD (South side) Nos.78 TO 90 (Even))

GV II

Terrace of seven houses. Nos 88 & 90 now part of the Edward Hotel, No.92 London Road (qv). 1827. Later minor alterations. For Joseph Roberts, printer. Painted stucco on brick, slate roofs, a brick stack on each party wall. Double-depth block with rear wings; at the west end of the terrace, No.78 is widened by a narrow bay slightly set back from the front. EXTERIOR: two storeys and cellars. On the fronts an offset plinth, a continuous raised band at first-floor level, continuous crowning cornice with frieze band and coped parapet; on the ground floor a right-hand entrance to each house; each doorway within a segmental arched opening framed by narrow sidelights and a fanlight; fielded six-panel doors to Nos 78, 80 & 82. To left of each doorway a large sash with glazing bars (4x4 panes) replaced in some houses by plain sashes; on the first floor of each house two sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes); in the narrow, recessed front of the bay on the west side of No.78 a sash on each floor with glazing bars (3x4 panes); all the sashes in openings with projecting stone sills. INTERIOR: Nos 88 & 90 retain original features including dogleg staircases with stick balusters and cylindrical newel posts. Some original plasterwork with leaf moulding; 6-panel doors have reeded architraves with cornices and fleurons and lions' masks to upper corners. Hallways have arches with plaster corbels. One Regency fireplace with circle to upper corner. Otherwise not inspected. This terrace is part of a proposed larger development of which only another similar terrace in Hillfield Parade, Nos 104 to 116 London Road (qv) were built.



Listing NGR: SO8404518890

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