Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NE WELLINGTON PARADE 844-1/9/374 (East side) 23/01/52 Picton House

GV II

Town house, now flats. c1825. Restored and converted to flats. 1988. Ashlar front and brick, slate roof. A symmetrical block with rear wing to right. EXTERIOR: two storeys, cellar and attic; symmetrical entrance facade in monumental classical style faced in ashlar; three bays with a slight projection to the central bay; wall dado with offset plinth and capping; above the dado the bays framed by a giant order of Roman Doric pilasters with a pair of pilasters at each end of the facade and the outer pilaster of each pair clasping the corner; pilasters support a massive crowning entablature which breaks forward on the central bay projection, and above a parapet with piers corresponding with the pilasters and a moulded capping. On the ground floor a recessed central entrance porch in a plain opening with moulded cornice above, and with carved brackets in the angles of the flat arched head; a moulded architrave to the doorway within the porch; in both side bays the base moulding of the pilasters is continued across as a moulded string at window sill level, each bay to side a sash with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in an opening with moulded architraves. On the first floor three sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes), below the central sash a string course at sill level between the pilasters, otherwise the opening framed by moulded architrave and a floating cornice above supported on flanking end-brackets, the sashes in the side bays in openings with eared architraves and projecting sills. INTERIOR: staircase off entrance hall to left, open tread with stick balusters and swept handrail; believed to contain other original features.





Listing NGR: SO8369318719

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Recommended Books

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (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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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  For the Record