Description

DURSLEY LONG STREET
ST 7598
(north side)
5/21 No 5 (Lloyds Bank)
23.6.52
GV II

Formerly town house, now bank offices. Mid C18. Red Flemish bond
brick; ashlar limestone dressings; stone slate roof. L-plan; 3-
storey with attic and basement. Front: 4-window fenestration, all
segmental-arched 12-pane sashes with moulded and keyed architraves,
moulded sills and lugged aprons. Off-centre pedimented doorway
with attached Ionic columns; rusticated architrave to round
archway with moulded imposts; 8-panel fielded door. Plain keyed
architraves to segmental-arched basement windows. Chamfered long
and short quoins; moulded eaves cornice; balustraded parapet in 2
sections; access dormer from hipped roof behind. West side:
partly visible above No 1 Long Street. Single round-arched small-
paned window to each floor; further upper floor sash to right.
Rear: Venetian window to middle and upper floors; pedimented
roof-dormer with small-paned casement. Interior altered on ground
floor; upper floors not inspected. An imposing building, set back
from the general building line. Probably built as a clothier's
house.
(D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: ST7563098160

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26514553

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Recommended Books

• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)