Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW BRUNSWICK ROAD 844-1/12/18 (West side) 12/03/73 No.26 Bastion House (Formerly Listed as: BRUNSWICK ROAD (West side) Bastion House)

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House, now offices. c1820, late C19 alterations. Brick with ashlar details, slate roof, brick stacks with chimney pots. Three-storey block with a slightly later, three-storey cross wing projecting to front left, and a single-storey entrance porch built into the re-entrant angle; added onto the front of the wing a single-storey late C19 bow window in ashlar. EXTERIOR: three storeys, attic and cellar; offset stone plinth; on the front the main block has boxed eaves supported on pairs of brackets; a parapet to the front wing; on the ground floor the entrance doorway to the porch with brick jambs and a semicircular stone arch set with a raised keystone has a fanlight with radiating glazing bars; to right of porch two sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes); on the first floor above the porch a narrow sash with glazing bars (2x4 panes) and to the right two sashes similar to the sashes below on the ground floor; on the second floor three shorter sashes with glazing bars (3x2 panes above the porch and 3x3 panes to the right); on the front of the wing the added, late C19, single-storey, ashlar bow has a moulded crowning cornice with frieze band and blocking course and three curved, plate-glass sashes in openings with moulded stone jambs, flat arched heads, and sloping sills; the front of the wing on both the first and second floors has two sashes with glazing bars (on the first floor 3x4 panes and on the second floor 3x3 panes); on the return north side of the wing sashes with glazing bars (on the ground and first floors 2x4 panes and on the second floor 3x3 panes); all the original sashes in openings with five raised and stepped voussoirs to flat arched heads and projecting stone sills. Mid C19 rear block with full-height canted bay, glazing bar sashes and rusticated quoins. INTERIOR: not inspected. House is built on the site of the bastion at the south-east corner of the defences constructed 1644-51 to defend the City of Gloucester in the Civil War siege by Royalist Forces.





Listing NGR: SO8313018168

External Links

• Wikidata Q26538446

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