Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE BRUNSWICK SQUARE
844-1/11/35 (West side)
23/01/52 Nos.12-18 (Consecutive)

GV II

Terrace of seven houses; mostly converted for use as
professional offices and flats. 1825, later internal
alterations. Stuccoed brick, slate roofs, brick stacks on the
party walls. Double-depth block with rear wings, the front set
back from street with basement areas in small gardens; a
lower, recessed, entrance bay on the north side of No.12.
EXTERIOR: three storeys and semi-basements; the entrance bay
to No.12 of two storeys and semi-basement. On the front a
slight projection to No.15, the central house in the terrace;
continuous rustication on the basement and ground floors
capped by a continuous raised band at first-floor level; from
this level, on the first and second floors the fronts of the
individual houses are defined by a giant order of pilasters
with moulded capitals supporting a deep crowning entablature
and coped parapet;
The entrance bay to No.12 has a raised band at first-floor
level and a moulded eaves cornice. On the ground floor the
entrance doorway to other houses on right is approached by a
flight of stone steps and, except for the doorway in the front
side entrance bay to No.12, with wrought-iron balustrades, the
doorways in the main front have rusticated jambs and
semicircular arched heads with decorative metal fanlights and
panelled doors; the doorway to No.12 is similar but in a plain
opening with plain fanlight.
To left of each doorway, and off-centre to left on the front
of No.12, a single sash; on the first floor of each house two
sashes and on the second floor of each house two slightly
shorter sashes; a small sash on the ground floor of the side
return wall of No.12 and on the first floor of the side
entrance bay a similar sash; all the sashes with glazing bars
(4x3 panes) in openings with projecting stone sills; on the
first floor of the main front all the openings have delicate,
decorative cast-iron, bow-fronted window guards, all other
sashes in openings with projecting stone sills.
INTERIOR: most houses reputed to contain original staircases
and other joinery, ceilings with moulded plaster cornices and
fireplaces.

Listing NGR: SO8299618105

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 12-18, Brunswick Square at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26538432

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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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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)