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GLOUCESTER

SO8317 SPA ROAD 844-1/15/312 (North side) 23/01/52 No.7 Beaufort Buildings (Formerly Listed as: SPA ROAD (North side) Nos 1 to 7 (consec) Beaufort Buildings)

GV II

House at east end of Beaufort Buildings terrace. c1835-40; later C19 addition. Brick, stuccoed and painted white on front with decorative wrought-iron balconies, stone details, slate roof, brick stacks. Double-depth block, with the entrance recessed on east side, and rear wing, a later C19 addition on east side. EXTERIOR: three storeys and basement, the front of two bays and a third recessed bay on right; abutting on the right hand-side of the recessed bay, and projectng slightly to the front, the later C19 addition of one storey and basement; on the two bays to left, the projecting, rusticated front to the basement has panelled, clasping pilasters at the corners and in the centre a pair of similar pilasters; at ground-floor level the top of the basement projection forms the floor of a verandah with a decorative, wrought-iron balustrade; on the rusticated ground floor the outer corners of the two bays to left and the recessed bay to right have clasping strip pilasters, and a pilaster between the two left-hand bays; on the first and second floors above the ground-floor strip pilasters is a giant order of clasping and intermediate pilasters, all with moulded bases and capitals, a raised band between the pilasters at second-floor level; crowning entablature and coped parapet above; on the two bays to left at first-floor level between the corner pilasters a cantilevered balcony in three bays with delicate filigree, wrought-iron standards, balustrade panels, and drop friezes, all supported on iron brackets and with a metal, tented canopy roof; on the first floor of the recessed bay a cantilevered balcony of wrought-iron with similar details. On the ground floor of the recessed bay the entrance doorway is approached by a wide flight of stone steps flanked by decorative wrought-iron balustrades; the doorway with segmental arched head, and framed by moulded architrave, encloses timber-framed fanlight with radiating glazing bars, sidelights, and late C20 door replacing original fielded

six-panel door. On the ground floor in each of the two bays to left a tall sash with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings with rusticated, flat-arched heads, give access to the verandah; on the first floor in each bay a sash with glazing bars (3x4 panes) give access to the balconies, on the second floor in each bay a sash with glazing bars (3x4 panes), all in openings with projecting sills; in the front of the later C19 wing to right clasping pilasters at the corners and eaves cornice, on the ground floor a tripartite window with plain sashes. INTERIOR: not inspected. A slightly smaller version of No.29 & 31 Spa Road (qv) by Sir Robert Smirke.

Listing NGR: SO8313317912

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