Description

GLOUCESTER

SO81NW STROUD ROAD
844-1/3/332 (West side)
12/03/73 Nos.257 AND 259
Gothic Cottages Nos.1 and 2

II

Formerly known as: No.257 Gothic Cottage STROUD ROAD.
House, now subdivided as two dwellings. C1830s with C20
addition at rear. Ashlar, fish-scale slate roof with
elaborately scalloped eaves boards, steeply-pitched gables
with elaborately scalloped barge boards and shaped apex
finials, ashlar stack and two brick ridge stacks. Picturesque
Tudor Gothic style. A parallel range with a central
cross-gabled projection to front with gabled entrance porch to
left and a hipped wing to rear.
EXTERIOR: one storey and attic; the front gabled projection
has large four-light stone mullioned casement window with an
upper transom and an eared hoodmould above; porch to left has
coped gable with kneelers and arched entrance doorway with C20
vertical boarded door; above the porch a cross-gable; within
the central gable a two-light casement with a central stone
mullion and in the gable to left a single-light casement; to
right a tall, projecting, ashlar stack with side offsets and
corbelled cap; the gabled ends of the range are identical,
each with a central slightly projecting bay capped by a
cornice below a stone roof; within each end-gable a two-light
stone mullioned casement with a central stone mullion; all the
casements have C20 glazing.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8356116622

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561698

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)