Description

GLOUCESTER

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

II

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561514

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6