Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW COMMERCIAL ROAD
844-1/12/93 (South side)
12/03/73 No.1
(Formerly Listed as:
COMMERCIAL ROAD
(South side)
No.2
County Office of WRVS)

GV II

Shown on OS map as No.2.
The Gloucester Savings Bank, now office. 1849-50. By Hamilton
and Medland. Ashlar, slate roof, ashlar stack. Italianate
style. Designed for the triangular site on the south-east
corner at the junction of Commercial Road and Southgate Street
with a canted angle facing the street intersection.
EXTERIOR: three storeys and cellar with unified elevations to
both streets comprising five bays in Commercial Road, one
splayed bay facing the intersection, and two bays in Southgate
Street; the ground floor designed as a rusticated arcade with
chamfered offset plinths and raised imposts, on the keystones
of the semicircular arches sculpted heads, vermiculated quoins
at each corner of the building, and a raised band at
first-floor level; the upper floors of plain ashlar with
raised chamfered quoins at the corners, a moulded string at
first-floor sill level, and moulded brackets supporting the
crowning cornice with blocking course above.
On the ground floor in the central bay of the front facing
Commercial Road the entrance doorway with a plain semicircular
fanlight and panelled double doors framed by Roman Doric
pilasters and entablature, in the recessed panel within each
arcade bay a plain, semicircular arched sash in opening with
projecting stone sill. On the first floor in each bay a plain
sash framed by moulded architrave with entablature, a pediment
on console brackets above the central window in Commercial
Road and above the window in the canted bay. On the second
floor shorter sashes and a blind window in the canted bay, all
framed by moulded, eared architraves and projecting sills
supported on moulded brackets at each end.
Above the crowning cornice on the Southgate Street front a
tall chimney-stack with offset plinth, recessed panels on each
face, and crowning cornice supported on moulded brackets.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(BOE: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of
Dean: London: 1976-: 251).

Listing NGR: SO8300418368

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561580

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