Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW SOUTHGATE STREET
844-1/8/254 (West side)
12/03/73 Nos.16 AND 18

GV II

Pair of shops with offices or dwellings, now bank. c1835, with
C20 alterations and additions. Brick, the street front faced
in ashlar, slate roof. A large double-depth block with later
extensions at rear and extensive internal alterations.
EXTERIOR: four storeys and cellar; the front to Southgate
Street has steel-framed glazed screen to banking chamber on
the ground floor inserted c1965 to replace an ashlar front to
the chamber inserted c1920 when the former shops were
converted to a bank. On the upper floors the ashlar front of
four bays is original with a moulded string at first-floor
window sill level, and a band at second-floor window sill
level running between grooved quoin strips at the angles of
the block, the strips rising to a bold frieze and modillion
cornice with dentils above the second storey; the attic storey
above the cornice has strips at the angles, a shallow crowning
cornice and parapet; on the first and on the second floors
sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings with moulded
architraves; cornices above the first-floor windows supported
on consoles, in the attic storey plain window openings each
with a pair of plain casements.
Side elevation to Cross Keys Lane of brick with stone
dressings in three bays of unequal spacing with string
cornices and cornices at the same levels as those on the
front; early C20 alterations to windows on the ground floor;
windows in the upper floors of the right hand bay are blocked,
otherwise sashes with glazing bars in openings with flat
arches of raised-and-stepped voussoirs, a blocked window
opening to former stair well with round arched head of raised
stone voussoirs.
INTERIOR: mostly altered and refitted; on the first floor
behind the two bays to right on the front elevation, a room
retains its decorative plaster cornice with a band of paterae,
egg-and-dart and acanthus mouldings, a moulded central roundel
on the ceiling; panelled window shutters and picture rail.
Cellars not accessible for inspection.

Listing NGR: SO8311218514

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561663

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