Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NE LONDON ROAD 844-1/9/167 (South side) 23/01/52 No.42 Claremont House

GV II

Detached villa, flats. 1820. Stuccoed brick, hipped slate roof. Double-depth block. EXTERIOR: three storeys, attic and semi-basement. Symmetrical front of three bays with offset plinth rising to ground-floor level; on the ground floor the stucco is grooved to imitate masonry rustication with a quoined return at each outer corner, a projecting band at first-floor sill level; the bays on the upper floors are framed by a giant order of shallow pilasters with full-height recessed panels and moulded capitals, the outer pilasters slightly inset from the corners and a crowning entablature with moulded cornice and parapet above. On the ground floor a central, projecting, single-storey porch on a landing approached by a flight of stone steps, the porch in the Roman Doric order with facing pairs of columns at the outer corners supporting an entablature and blocking course; the entrance doorway in a moulded architrave frame with side-lights and a segmental arched fanlight of "batswing" pattern above the lintel; double doors with fielded lower panels and glazed upper panels with glazing bars, similar side-lights. To either side of doorway a sash and on each upper floor three sashes, all with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings with projecting stone sills. INTERIOR: not inspected.



Listing NGR: SO8378618802

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)