Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW SOUTHGATE STREET
844-1/12/264 (East side)
12/03/73 No.43
Copner House

GV II

Town house, now offices. Mid to late C18, mid C19 alterations.
Brick, stuccoed front, slate roof with gabled dormers.
Double-depth block with carriage way through front range at
south end.
EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic; front remodelled in mid C19,
of four bays. Sill band at first-floor sill level and moulded
eaves board with decorative scalloped edge; entrance doorway
in the second bay from left with moulded architrave and
six-panel door; at right-hand end a carriage way with
segmental arch and panelled double doors; on each side of
entrance doorway a plain horned sash, and on the first floor
four similar, shorter sashes, all in openings with wide,
moulded architraves; two gabled dormers with moulded barge
boards and apex finials and in each a sash with glazing bars
(3x2 panes).
Rear elevation on the ground floor has central doorway with
flat arched head of five raised-and-stepped voussoirs, on each
side of the doorway a Venetian window with a
raised-and-stepped key stone in the arch, the central sash in
the left hand window with intersecting glazing bars and bars
in the narrow side sashes, the right hand window altered in
C20 by the insertion of French doors with side-lights, on the
first floor two similar Venetian windows with
raised-and-stepped key stones in the arches and original
sashes with intersecting glazing bars in the arches.
INTERIOR: not inspected. The Copner family occupied the house
from 1870 to 1938 when it was converted to offices.

Listing NGR: SO8303918381

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561670

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)