Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8217 SPA ROAD 844-1/15/309 (North side) 25/01/52 Nos.23, 25 AND 27 Sherborne House

GV II*

Block of three houses. c1825, late C19 alterations. For John Chadborn. Brick, stuccoed on front, slate roofs, brick stacks. Double-depth block; the central house, No.25, is flanked by recessed mirror-image houses, Nos 23 & 27 respectively, with rear wings. EXTERIOR: three storeys and basements. Symmetrical front, the central house of three bays and each of the recessed flanking houses of one wide bay with a second narrower bay further recessed on the side. The ground floor of No.25 is rusticated with a stone paved verandah across the full width; at first-floor level the balcony above the verandah is supported on three slender, cast-iron posts and has a delicate wrought-iron balustrade; on the first and second floors the bays are defined by a giant order of shallow, panelled pilasters, the outer pilasters inset from the corners, which support the crowning entablature and parapet. No.25, on the ground floor a central entrance doorway with a fielded eight-panel door, (top panels glazed) framed with flanking sidelights and with a segmental-arched head enclosing a decorative metal fanlight in an opening with moulded architrave; on each side of the doorway a sash with glazing bars (4x4 panes); on the first floor three tall sashes with glazing bars (3x5 panes) giving access to the balcony; on the second floor three sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings with decorative wrought-iron, bow-fronted window guards. No.23, on the recessed front an offset plinth, raised band at first-floor level, and crowning cornice with parapet; the entrance porch on the front of the recessed bay to right approached by a flight of stone steps with wrought-iron balustrade, the lean-to porch canopy supported by decorative wrought-iron standards; entrance doorway with semicircular arched head enclosing a decorative metal fanlight and fielded six-panel door in an opening with moulded architrave; on the ground floor of the projecting bay to right a sash, and on both upper floors on the fronts of each bay a similar sash, all with glazing bars and with decorative wrought-iron, bow-fronted window guards.

No 27, the details of the front similar to No.23 except original porch replaced in late C19 by an open, timber-framed, gabled porch partly constructed with moulded and carved late C16 and C17 timbers including turned posts and richly scrolled barge boards with a turned apex finial, probably decorative timbers salvaged from houses in Gloucester; to left in the front of the wide bay the original sash replaced with a plain horned sash in opening with added moulded architrave and cornice. INTERIOR: not inspected.



Listing NGR: SO8296817989

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