Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE LLANTHONY ROAD
844-1/11/151 (South side)
No.3
St Luke's House

GV II

Shop, dwelling and warehouse, now offices. Early C19,
converted to offices c1990. Brick with stone details, slate
roof, hipped to front, gabled at rear. A right-angle range on
the south-west corner of Llanthony Road and Church Street.
EXTERIOR: three storeys; the front of two bays with low
parapet above the original, symmetrical, timber shop-front
framed by pilasters and fascia with brackets at each end; in
the centre of the shop-front is doorway with rectangular
fanlight with margin bars, and to each side a large shop
window with glazing bars (5x3 panes); on each of the upper
floors two sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings
with flat-arched heads of five raised-and-stepped stone
voussoirs and stone sills. The east side facing Church Street
of five bays; in the left hand bay the openings for the former
loading doors on each floor altered in late C20 with doorway
on ground floor and windows with close-set vertical bars in
the two upper floors; the right-hand bay on the ground and
first floor is blank but on both floors in each of the three
central bays is a sash with glazing bars (3x4 panes), and in
each of the four bays on the second floor a shorter sash with
glazing bars (3x4 panes), all the sashes in openings similar
to the front.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
An interesting example of its type, with a well preserved shop
front and historically linked to the nearby Docks development
of the early C19.

Listing NGR: SO8277018056

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538255

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