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

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