Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW SOUTHGATE STREET
844-1/12/257 (West side)
12/03/73 No.28

GV II

Includes: No.2 LONGSMITH STREET.
Shop and former dwelling. Early C19. Brick with stone details,
slate roof. Double-depth block with wing to rear facing
Longsmith Street.
EXTERIOR: four storeys and cellar; on the front a late C19
shop-front with recessed, canted entrance and a quadrant
return at the corner with Longsmith Street; shop windows with
full-height glass panels framed by cast-iron colonnettes and
shallow segmental arches and shop fascia with cornice and a
cast-iron column supporting the corner of the building outside
the quadrant corner. On the upper floors the front to
Southgate Street of two bays with moulded stone crowning
cornice and blocking course, on the first and on the second
floors sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes), on the third
floor shorter sashes with glazing bars (3x3 panes), all in
openings with flat arched heads of five raised-and-stepped
voussoirs and projecting stone sills.
Front to Longsmith Street of three unequally spaced bays with
sashes of several sizes on each of the upper floors, all with
glazing bars; at left-hand end of wing a doorway containing
fanlight with vertical glazing bars, and four-panel door; all
the openings with flat arched heads of five raised-and-stepped
voussoirs.
INTERIOR: to rear right a staircase with stick balusters; in
the principal rooms on first and second floors splayed window
reveals with panelled shutters and fielded eight-panel doors;
the cellar relined throughout.

Listing NGR: SO8308218488

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561666

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