Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NE LONDON ROAD
844-1/9/163 (North side)
23/01/52 No.19
Northgate House and attached walls
and railings to forecourt

GV II*

House, now offices. Mid to late C17, refronted mid C18, later
alterations. Brick, stuccoed front with stone details painted
white, gable-end slate roof, brick stacks, hipped dormers. A
wide double-depth block with rear wing.
EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic. Symmetrical front although
the windows not spaced at regular intervals; offset plinth
painted black, continuous crowning cornice with close set
modillions and a large, central pediment with similar
modillions above the centre of the cornice. On the ground
floor the entrance doorway with architrave surround framed by
panelled pilasters and moulded brackets supporting a pediment
above; six-panel door, the lower panels fielded; three plain
C20 sashes to each side of the doorway and on the first floor
six plain sashes, all in openings of similar size; in the
tympanum of the crowning pediment a central circular window in
a moulded frame; two hipped roof dormers each with a pair of
casements with glazing bars; at either end of the front below
the cornice, a decorative C18 cast lead rain water head to a
pipe.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: at the outer corners of the forecourt are
tall brick piers with offset plinths and cornices, between the
piers a wrought-iron railing set on a stone plinth and
central, wrought-iron double gates framed by decorative
wrought-iron standards and overthrow.

Listing NGR: SO8361018804

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Northgate House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17537705

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