Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8217 STROUD ROAD
844-1/15/330 (North East side)
12/03/73 Nos.13 AND 15

GV II

Two houses, may have originally been one house, now offices.
Early C19, C20 alterations. Painted stucco on brick, slate
roofs. A large block with a full-height recessed bay on the
right-hand side containing the entrance, and further right a
lower wing projecting to the front.
EXTERIOR: three storeys; the front of the block to left of the
recessed bay has a central, semicircular bow to the two lower
storeys; on the upper floors at the outer corners, and
flanking each side of the bow, a giant order of slender
pilasters with moulded bases supported on shaped brackets, and
thin moulded capitals; between the bases a raised band and a
crowning entablature with coped parapet; in the bow on each
floor a central sash and narrow side sashes, all curved and
with glazing bars (3x4 panes in the front sashes, 2x4 panes in
the side sashes), and framed by slender, attached shafts with
moulded bases and capitals and projecting sills; on the second
floor above the bow a tripartite window with sashes, the
central sash with a central, vertical glazing bar; in the
recessed bay to right a flight of stone steps to the entrance
doorway with fanlight and sidelights framed by pilasters and
entablature above, a C20 glazed panel door; above doorway on
the first floor a sash with glazing bars (2x4 panes), and on
the second floor a shorter sash with glazing bars in the upper
frame.
In the front of the wing to right on the ground floor a large
opening with C20 garage doors, a raised string course at
first-floor sill level, on the first floor in each of two
shallow, semicircular arched recesses a sash with glazing bars
(3x4 panes) and on the second floor two sashes with glazing
bars (3x3 panes) in openings with projecting sills.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8287417732

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561696

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)