Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW MILLER'S GREEN
844-1/8/203 (West side)
23/01/52 No.1
The Deanery and attached forecourt
walls and railings

GV II*

House. Built between 1731 and 1741 and leased to Peter Haynes,
gentleman; internal alterations c1810 and c1938. Since 1938
the Deanery, but formerly the cathedral organist's house. Red
brick with stone details, slate roof, brick stacks. A
double-depth block with entrance forecourt.
EXTERIOR: three storeys, basement and attic; symmetrical front
of five bays, on the ground floor the central doorway,
approached by flight of stone steps, in stone doorcase with
moulded architraves and pediment. In bays on each side and on
the upper floors sashes with original glazing bars (4x3 panes)
in openings with rubbed brick flat arches. At the rear a
central, large, semicircular arched window to the stair well
with glazing bars, and other sashes with glazing bars;
first-floor windows open onto early C19 cast-iron balconies on
brackets.
INTERIOR: central entrance hall with fielded panels above
fielded panel dado and divided by a transverse, moulded basket
arch, with open well staircase to first floor at rear; the
staircase with column newels, three column-on-vase newels to
each tread, and open string with richly carved tread-end
brackets; the room to front on left is lined with excellent
early C18 panelling installed by Dean Castley-White, c1935,
with chimney-piece framed by full height Doric pilasters and
entablature, the fireplace in moulded frame, with central
patera in the head carved with a swag and a surround of C18
Delft tiles, above a looking glass in an eared architrave
frame; in front room to right early C17 square panelling with
two C18 fielded panels above fireplace; in room to rear on
right an early C19 fireplace surround and moulded cornice.
On the first floor the plaster ceiling above the stair well
has a central moulded roundel of foliage in relief, in the
cross gallery fielded panelling and modillion cornice,
panelled double doors to service stairs with fanlight in
basket arch, the large room to rear on right refitted in early
C19 with chimney piece, window joinery and moulded cornice, in
both front rooms with C18 panelling above chimney pieces; in
the attic reused C17 panelling.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Entrance forecourt has brick piers at the

outer corners with moulded stone caps and on the axis of the
entrance a pair of wrought-iron gates with overthrow between
brick piers, each gate pier surmounted by a finely carved
stone urn, on each side of the gateway wrought-iron railings
between the piers and on each side of the court a brick wall.
Wall with pyramidal brick piers to left, attached to No.15
College Green (qv).
HISTORY: House was the birth place of Robert Raikes founder of
the Sunday School movement.
(Eward S: No Fine but a Glass of Wine, Cathedral Life at
Gloucester: Salisbury: 1985-: 322).

Listing NGR: SO8303718882

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17537707

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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