Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SE BARTON STREET 844-1/13/7 (North side (off)) 12/03/73 Gothic Cottages Nos 7 and 8

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Pair of semi-detached cottages. c1820. Brick with stuccoed front. Roof in imitation slate, with blue brick capping; left hand house has plain chimney without corbelled courses. Double-depth block with rear wings, a mirror-image pair facing Barton Street at south end of short cul-de-sac. EXTERIOR: two storeys. Symmetrical front with Gothick details; brick dentil crowning cornice and low parapet; at the centre a pair of adjoining entrance doorways with shallow ogee-arched heads and framed by bolection mould architraves; panelled doors with ogee heads; right hand door replaced by 12 panel door (vertical raised and fielded panels); to either side a window of two arched lights and on the first floor three similar windows of which the central window is divided between the two cottages; all the windows with projecting stone sills and moulded surrounds to the lights. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: the cottages were used as an isolation hospital during the cholera epidemic of 1832.





Listing NGR: SO8383518048

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