SHERBORNE HOUSE

SHERBORNE HOUSE, 23 25 AND 27, SPA ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1245621
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: SHERBORNE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SHERBORNE HOUSE, 23 25 AND 27, SPA ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1245621
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: SHERBORNE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SHERBORNE HOUSE, 23 25 AND 27, SPA ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SHERBORNE HOUSE, 23 25 AND 27, SPA ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Gloucester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 82968 17989

Details

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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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.