Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW BRUNSWICK SQUARE
844-1/12/38 (South side)
No.28

GV II

End of terrace house. c1860. Stuccoed brick, hipped slate
roof, brick stacks. Double-depth block with rear wing, garden
front on west side.
EXTERIOR: three storeys and cellar; on each elevation raised
bands at first-floor and second-floor sill levels between
giant strip pilasters to first and second floors, and crowning
cornice with closely set modillions.
On the front to left on the ground floor a recessed porch,
leading to entrance doorway with fanlight, is entered through
a semicircular archway in a slightly projecting, rusticated,
panel crowned by a moulded cornice at first-floor level; the
cornice continues to right on each side of a single storey,
canted bay window with crowning frieze band and hipped lead
roof.
A wide sash in the front of the bay and a narrow sash in each
canted side, all in openings with projecting keystones in
flat-arched heads. On first floor two sashes in openings with
moulded architraves with raised keystones in the flat heads;
the left-hand window with a projecting moulded sill supported
on volute brackets at each end flanking a moulded panel below
the sill: on this sill and at the sill level of the right-hand
window on top of the roof of the ground-floor bay are
cast-iron window guards; on second floor two shorter sashes in
openings with moulded architraves with raised keystones in the
flat heads, and moulded sills projecting from the sill band
supported on shaped end-brackets.
On east elevation the details of ground floor not visible from
street at inspection; at left-hand end a two storey, canted
bay window to ground and first floors, with modillion crowning
cornice and hipped lead roof, in the front of the bay on the
first floor a wide sash and in each canted side a narrow sash,
on the first floor and on the second floor a sash and on the
second floor above the bay window a wider sash, all in
openings with similar details to second-floor windows on the
front.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
An integral feature in a good group of early/mid C19 houses in
Brunswick Square.

Listing NGR: SO8302518039

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538415

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)