Description

DURSLEY BROADWELL
ST 7598
(east side)
5/4 Nos 5 and 6
(previously listed as Broadwell
30.6.61 Terrace)
GV II

Small house (No 5) attached to former pre-Reformation religious
building (No 6, priest's house or possibly the nunnery recorded as
existing in this part of Dursley); now surgery. C15 but much
altered in C18, C19 and C20; house is early C19, altered C20.
Random rubble marlstone, largely painted; patching in variety of
materials including large area of artificial stone; brick chimneys
to No 5; clay pantile roof to No 6, concrete plain tile to No 5.
No 6 is 2-storey, L-plan with C20 addition in angle. No 5 is 2-
storey and bridges passageway between the 2 buildings. Front
(west): blocked pointed-arched doorway at low level at left hand
end of No 6 with hood mould: 4-light mullioned and transomed
window to right, blocked below transom, with C19 or C20 restored
cinquefoil heads and hood mould, possibly formerly a window to open
hall. Two-window fenestration to right are 2-light mullioned
casements with pointed-arched heads, that to left on upper floor
being C19 square-headed un-mullioned casement. Left to ground
floor has trefoil cusping, right having cinquefoil but very
mutilated. Right to upper floor is un-cusped, cusping possibly
removed. South end: parapet gable with ridge-moulded octagonal
stone chimney. Mixed fenestration in 2-storey wing to right
including 2-light C17 upper floor casement and two 16-pane sashes
either side of late C19 oriel. Many indications of altered or
blocked openings. Rear elevations have received many C20
alterations including C20 glazed shop front with concrete lintel.
No 5 has small-paned casements in front elevation, that to ground
floor left of passageway having brick segmental arch. Single-
window small-paned casement fenestration to rear as to front.
Interior to No 6 not inspected but much altered in C20. C20 water
landscaping to south and immediately at foot of wall of No 6.
Further historical investigation could prove fruitful.

Listing NGR: ST7572898084

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26579376

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)