Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8418NW LONDON ROAD 844-1/10/176 (South side) 25/01/52 Nos.100 AND 102 Hillfield Parade (Formerly Listed as: LONDON ROAD (South side) Nos.100 TO 118 (Even) Hillfield Parade)

GV II

Pair of terrace houses, now flats, at west end of Hillfield Parade. c1827. Part of a terrace development for Joseph Roberts, printer. Painted stucco on brick, slate roof, brick stacks. Double-depth block mirror image pair with rear wings. EXTERIOR: three storeys, semi-basements with front areas, attic storey. The front of the houses a unified facade of four bays with slightly offset plinth rising to ground-floor sill level and on the ground floor banded rustication capped by a raised band at first-floor level, on the first and second floors the bays to either side are defined by a giant order of shallow pilasters with simple moulded capitals supporting a moulded cornice and frieze band which break forward above the end bays; the shallow attic storey with moulded cornice and parapet also breaks forward above the end bays, with a shallow recessed panel in both projections of the parapet; on the ground floor in the centre of the front the two entrance doorways are each framed by a pair of shallow pilasters with capitals which support a continuous entablature above both. To each side of the doorways a sash; on the first floor of each house two similar sashes and on the second floor two shorter sashes, all with glazing bars (3x4 panes), in the basement area a sash with glazing bars (4x4 panes); in the attic storey No.100 has two casement pairs and No.102 has two sashes, all with glazing bars (4x2 panes). INTERIOR: not inspected, but believed to contain original features and joinery.



Listing NGR: SO8423918932

External Links

• Wikidata Q26538234

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