Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW EASTGATE STREET 844-1/12/120 (South side) 23/01/52 Nos.96, 98 AND 100 (Formerly Listed as: BARTON STREET (South side) Nos.52, 54 AND 54A)

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.52, 54 AND 56 BARTON STREET. Shown on OS map as Nos 52, 54 & 54A Barton Street. House, now shops and offices. c1800, built for William Fendall, barrister and banker. Extended and altered in mid to late C19 with shops along street frontage, C20 alterations to shops. Brick, faced in ashlar to front and rear of original house, stuccoed later additions, slate roofs. The house apparently incomplete, a central cross-range with bowed walls at front and rear, a two-bay wing to right and a single-bay wing to left, shop extensions in several phases. EXTERIOR: house of three storeys with full attic storey above the central range and roof attics above the wings. Two lower storeys of the original front elevation masked by shops; above the third storey a crowning cornice, shallow pilasters to either side of the central bow and to each bay of the right hand wing, all with feather capitals on a continuous frieze band below the cornice; the central attic storey has a thin crowning cornice with a low coped parapet above; on the third storey in the bow sashes with glazing bars (the central sash 3x4 panes) in a tri-partite window, a sash with glazing bars (4x3 panes) in each of the two bays to right and in the bay to left; the central attic storey on the bow has a Diocletion window, the central sash with glazing bars. The rear elevation, originally the garden front, has a partly rusticated ground-floor storey capped by a moulded string course and a crowning cornice similar to the front elevation; on the first-floor the bays of the wings are defined by raised quoins and on the second floor by shallow pilasters; on the first and second floors of the bow tripartite windows with sashes; sashes in the bays to either side except for casement in first floor bay to right; on the second floor the sashes in the bay to either side of the bow are set within slightly recessed arched panels. INTERIOR: not inspected. This building was called Mynd house during C19.





Listing NGR: SO8349118260

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings