Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE BRUNSWICK SQUARE 844-1/11/35 (West side) 23/01/52 Nos.12-18 (Consecutive)

GV II

Terrace of seven houses; mostly converted for use as professional offices and flats. 1825, later internal alterations. Stuccoed brick, slate roofs, brick stacks on the party walls. Double-depth block with rear wings, the front set back from street with basement areas in small gardens; a lower, recessed, entrance bay on the north side of No.12. EXTERIOR: three storeys and semi-basements; the entrance bay to No.12 of two storeys and semi-basement. On the front a slight projection to No.15, the central house in the terrace; continuous rustication on the basement and ground floors capped by a continuous raised band at first-floor level; from this level, on the first and second floors the fronts of the individual houses are defined by a giant order of pilasters with moulded capitals supporting a deep crowning entablature and coped parapet; The entrance bay to No.12 has a raised band at first-floor level and a moulded eaves cornice. On the ground floor the entrance doorway to other houses on right is approached by a flight of stone steps and, except for the doorway in the front side entrance bay to No.12, with wrought-iron balustrades, the doorways in the main front have rusticated jambs and semicircular arched heads with decorative metal fanlights and panelled doors; the doorway to No.12 is similar but in a plain opening with plain fanlight. To left of each doorway, and off-centre to left on the front of No.12, a single sash; on the first floor of each house two sashes and on the second floor of each house two slightly shorter sashes; a small sash on the ground floor of the side return wall of No.12 and on the first floor of the side entrance bay a similar sash; all the sashes with glazing bars (4x3 panes) in openings with projecting stone sills; on the first floor of the main front all the openings have delicate, decorative cast-iron, bow-fronted window guards, all other sashes in openings with projecting stone sills. INTERIOR: most houses reputed to contain original staircases and other joinery, ceilings with moulded plaster cornices and fireplaces.



Listing NGR: SO8299618105

External Links

• 12-18, Brunswick Square at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26538432

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