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

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