Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW BRUNSWICK ROAD
844-1/12/22 (East side)
23/01/52 Nos.51, 53 AND 55

GV II

Terrace of three houses, now subdivided as offices and flats.
c1820, later minor alterations. Stuccoed brick, slate roofs,
brick stacks on the party walls. Replicated and double-depth
block with rear wings.
EXTERIOR: three storeys, semi-basements, and attics with
dormers. Identical fronts with rusticated stucco on the
basements and ground floors, on the first and second floors
the fronts of the houses are defined by a giant order of
shallow pilasters, each enriched with a moulded running fret,
and with anthemion capitals supporting a crowning dentil
cornice with frieze band and blocking course; at first-floor
level a continuous cantilevered balcony with a delicate,
decorative wrought-iron balustrade and dividing panels between
the houses; at second-floor level, between the pilasters, a
raised band decorated with a moulded, running pattern of
vines. To left on the ground floor of each house a flight of
stone steps to the entrance doorway with a semicircular arched
head in which the keystone in the rusticated stucco voussoirs
is decorated with a moulded mask; in each doorway except No.51
a decorative metal fanlight and fielded 5-panel door with oval
moulding in full-width lower panel. To right of each doorway a
sash, all originally with glazing bars (4x3 panes) but
replaced by plain sashes in Nos 51 & 55; on the first floor of
each house two tall sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes); on
the second floor two shorter sashes with glazing bars (3x3
panes) with a large, moulded stucco laurel wreath above each
window; the window openings on the ground and second floors
have projecting stone sills.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8311718047

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538452

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Recommended Books

• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)