Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8317 MONTPELLIER
844-1/15/214 (South side)
10/11/89 North Villas Nos 1 and 2

GV II

Pair of semi-detached houses. c1825. Brick, stuccoed to front
and rear, slate roof, brick stacks. Mirror image, double-depth
block with a recessed entrance wing on each side.
EXTERIOR: three storey block and two storey entrance wings.
Symmetrical front, on the ground floor of the main block
channelled rustication, on the upper floors giant pilasters at
the corners and in the centre supporting the crowning
modillion cornice. On the ground floor of each house a late
C19 plate glass sash framed in an original opening with a
raised moulded architrave and a segmental pediment, the
tympanum decorated with ribbed stucco, which is supported on
moulded end-brackets; on the first floor of each house a sash
with glazing bars framed in an opening with moulded architrave
and a triangular pediment, each sash giving access to a
balcony with a decorative stucco balustrade; on the second
floor of each house a sash with glazing bars framed in an
opening with a moulded, eared architrave; on the recessed
front of each side wing front a glazed, lean-to entrance porch
with decorative wrought-iron standards; each doorway in an
opening with a decorative fanlight and a six-panel door; on
the first floor of the front of each wing a sash with glazing
bars (3x4 panes) in an opening with a gauged brick, flat
arched head and giving access to a balcony with a decorative,
bow-fronted wrought-iron balustrade; on the rear elevation on
the first floor each house has a sash with glazing bars (3x4
panes) giving to a similar balcony.
INTERIOR: each house noted as having open well staircases with
stick balusters, and other original joinery and fittings
including fireplaces and panelled doors and shutters.

Listing NGR: SO8316617964

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538211

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