Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8218NE BERKELEY STREET
844-1/7/11 (West side)
23/01/52 No.20

GV II

Town house, now flats. c1770 with C19 and C20 alterations.
Brick with stone and rendered details, hipped roof with C20
cast cement pantiles, roof dormers, brick stacks. Double-depth
block, with short wing to rear altered in late C19; entrance
hall leading to staircase on left.
EXTERIOR: two storeys attic and cellar. Front of four bays
unequally spaced in the overall width; rendered dado with
offset plinth is capped by a moulded string linking the
ground-floor window sills; grey brickwork in Flemish bond
above; a stone crowning cornice of cyma reversa profile and a
rendered parapet above. Entrance doorway in second bay from
left framed by crude cement-rendered pilasters replacing
original c1960, and original Doric entablature and pediment;
six-panel door, the upper four panels fielded. Sashes with
glazing bars to all other bays on ground and first floors,all
recessed in similar openings with contrasting red brick flat
arches and projecting stone sills; three flat roofed dormers
to attic behind front parapet.
INTERIOR: dog-leg staircase with closed string, column newels,
stick and column-on-vase balusters and ramped, toad back
handrail; otherwise the interior refitted in C20. Fine
fireplaces with ornamental pilasters and friezes. Cellar
walled in brick except for length in stone rubble at
south-east corner, perhaps part of earlier building.

Listing NGR: SO8296818623

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538443

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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