Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW SOUTHGATE STREET
844-1/12/258 (East side)
23/01/52 Nos.29 AND 31

GV II*

Two town houses, now a pair of shops and dwellings. c1740,
with C19 and C20 alterations. Brick with stone features and
dressings, slate roof. Double-depth block with wing to rear
right overlooking the churchyard of St Mary de Crypt (qv);
former service range, Greyfriars Inn (qv), attached to rear of
No.31.
EXTERIOR: three storeys and cellars; a single, unified,
five-bay front, on the ground floor two C20 shop-fronts
inserted on each side of a central pair of entrance doorways,
originally a plinth of three courses of raised and chamfered
ashlar, and above, at the outer corners of the ground floor,
raised and chamfered quoins, a stone band at first-floor
level, and a sill band at first-floor window level. In C20 the
former modillion crowning cornice replaced by a brick parapet;
in the centre a pair of arched doorways with fanlights, each
with radiating glazing bars, in a rusticated stone surround
and framed to each side by pair of three-quarter Ionic columns
supporting entablature with pulvinated frieze and pediment.
On the first floor above the doorway a Venetian window with a
Gibbs surround and sashes with glazing bars, and in bays to
each side sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings
with moulded stone, eared architraves with raised-and-stepped
triple key stones in the lintels; on the second floor five
sashes with glazing bars (3x4) panes in openings with moulded
stone, eared and shouldered architraves.
INTERIOR: in No.31 all original internal walls removed to form
shop but plan indicated by the original moulded cornices to
the ceilings of the former rooms; to rear right the stairwell;
mid-C18 timber open well staircase with open string, carved
tread-end brackets, column newels, column-on-vase balusters,
curtail step, ramped handrail and panelled dado. No.29 not
inspected.
(BOE: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of
Dean: London: 1976-: 250).

Listing NGR: SO8309618451

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17537722

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