Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8218NE BERKELEY STREET
844-1/7/10 (West side)
23/01/52 No.18
Langham House

GV II

Town house, how offices. c1770 with C19 alterations. Brick
with stone details, slate roof, brick stacks. Double-depth
with short wing to rear left and service wing to rear right;
entrance hall leading to staircase at rear.
EXTERIOR: three storeys and cellar, Front of four bays with
rendered offset plinth, a stone modillion crowning cornice
with rendered, stone capped parapet above. Entrance doorway in
the second bay from left in doorcase framed by applied
three-quarter columns with moulded bases on plinth blocks and
feathered capitals supporting dosserets decorated with paterae
and an open pediment above a semicircular arch enclosing a
radiating cast-iron fanlight; six-panel door, the four upper
panels fielded. Sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes) to other
bays on the ground floor and to all bays on the first and
second floors, all recessed in similar openings with rubbed
brick flat arches and projecting stone sills.
INTERIOR: C18 fielded panel doors and other joinery; late C18
open-well staircase with curtail step, open string with shaped
brackets to tread ends, slender column newels, stick
balusters, ramped handrail and dado rail. Late C18 chimney
pieces in several rooms with moulded architrave surrounds; in
the first-floor front room to left a chimney-piece with
pilasters supporting entablature with classical figures on
frieze blocks; the chimney-piece in the front room right has
an architrave frame and entablature with rosettes carved on
the frieze. Brick walled cellar.

Listing NGR: SO8297418631

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561517

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