Description

TQ 2677 NE KING'S ROAD
61/31 (North Side)

No 350 and Nos 1-8
(consec) Mulberry Court

GV II

Garage with attached residential accommodation. 1924.Designed by Robert Sharp.
Garage with stuccoed facade and reinforced concrete and steel frame;pitched slate
roof to parapet. Brick and stucco to advanced flanking wings,which have green
slate roofs. Garage set back between pair of residential blocks. Garage of 2
storeys, 7 bays. Entrances to end bays through wide segmental headed openings
with prominent keystones. Giant pilaster strips separating bays. Floor to ceiling
glazing to ground floor; low cills to upper floor with full width glazing to each bay
above. Glazing to each bay divided into 3 parts by mullions treated as pilasters to grounc
floor; metal framed windows, 35 paned to ground floor and 21 paned to upper floor, to
each bay. Cornice above first floor with paired modillions above pilaster strips.
Parapet, rising to centre bay to form stepped central feature. Above entrances the
words 'Carlyle Garages' in blue faience on a white faience ground. A pair of
residential blocks formerly including chauffeurs' accommodation (A Forsyth), set
forward to right and left; each of 4 storeys plus attic, 3 bays wide with 3-bay
returns to right and left. Left block with plateglass shop window and late C20 facia
to ground floor; right block with some original margin glazing and central square headed
pilastered and corniced entrance. Banded quoins above ground floor; square headed
windows with stucco architravesto first floor and centre second floor window; casements,
small panes, leaded lights; prominent cornice to each block above third floor. Attic
mansard with 3 square headed corniced windows, the centre ones pedimented.

Listing NGR: TQ2676677803

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Bluebird Garage at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4930248

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  For the Record
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)