Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW CLARENCE STREET 844-1/12/64 (East side) 23/01/52 Nos.18-30 (Even)

GV II

Terrace of eleven town houses, later nursing home and offices, now all offices. 1832-3. Part of the development of Clarence Street by William Rees, builder. C20 alterations including conversion of the four former houses at the south end of the terrace to nursing home with a new attic storey in mansard roof. Stuccoed brick with stone details, except ashlar above first floor of No.26; slate roofs, and hipped mansard slate roofs with dormers, brick stacks. The houses originally all double-depth block with rear wings, except the larger house (No.18 Clarence Street) at the south end with front facing Russell Street. EXTERIOR: three storeys, basements, and attics. Facing Russell Street the front of No.18 Clarence Street of four bays of varying width with offset plinth, band at second-floor level interrupted by the raised heads of the first-floor windows, and crowning entablature, on the ground floor at the outer corners clasping piers; above the piers on the upper floors, giant clasping pilasters, with moulded bases and caps, supporting the entablature; on the ground floor in the second bay from left a recessed entrance porch framed by Roman Doric pilasters and entablature with modillion cornice, to left a sash and to right two sashes in openings with moulded architraves and projecting sills; on the first-floor four sashes, each in an opening framed by pilasters, entablature with pediment supported on console brackets, and projecting stone sill on end-brackets, on the second floor four short sashes in openings with projecting sills; all the sashes with glazing bars (4x3 panes on the ground and first floors, 3x2 panes on the second floor). Facing Clarence Street each house in the terrace of two bays with a slight projection to the four houses at the south end and to the two houses at the north end; across the front a continuous raised band at first-floor level; on the upper floors the fronts of the projecting houses at each end are defined by a giant order of pilasters, all with moulded bases and caps and set on blocks projecting slightly from the first floor band. On the ground floor No.18 has two sashes to right in end of former house facing Russell Street; other houses have sashes infilling former doorways with flanking larger sashes with

glazing bars (4x4 panes) and an original doorway with rectangular fanlight with radiating glazing bars and six-panel door to former house at left. No.20 has C20 double sash window and doorway with plain fanlight to left, both framed by C19 pilasters supporting fascia. Nos 22, 24, 26 & 28 have doorways with fanlights, mostly with radiating glazing bars, and sashes to left with glazing bars (originally 4x4 panes) in the upper sash frames in Nos 22 & 24. No.30, originally two houses, has to right a former doorway infilled with a sash and sash to left, and to the second house, further left, the doorway with fanlight and a sash to left, all with plain sashes; to each house on the first floor two sashes, and on the second floor two shorter sashes, mostly with glazing bars (3x4 panes). INTERIOR: not inspected.





Listing NGR: SO8344018489

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