PADDOCK HOUSE

PADDOCK HOUSE, PITT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245689
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: PADDOCK HOUSE
Statutory Address:: PADDOCK HOUSE, PITT STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245689
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: PADDOCK HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: PADDOCK HOUSE, PITT STREET

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.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: PADDOCK HOUSE, PITT STREET

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 83221 18845

Details

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW PITT STREET 844-1/8/243 (North side) 23/01/52 Paddock House

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Formerly known as: No.4 Paddock House PITT STREET. House. Now public school boarding house and adjoining music school, part of the King's School. c1810. Added east range mid to late C19. Brick with stone details, hipped slate roof, brick stacks. Double-depth block with full-height, bow-fronted wing at rear; adjoining the east side a long, lower range, now the music school. No.5 Pitt Street (qv) adjoining to left, is now part of school house. EXTERIOR: the main block two storeys, cellar and attic, but on the front the attic behind the third storey and parapet; the front of six bays with brick, offset plinth, and stone crowning cornice with close-set modillions and blocking course; on the ground floor in second bay to left the entrance doorway, with semicircular arched fanlight with radiating bars, and fielded six-panel door, the doorway recessed within opening framed by stone doorcase with panelled pilasters, panelled dosserets, and open pediment enclosing the top of arch; in other bays on the ground floor five sashes, and on the first floor six similar sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes); on the third (attic) floor six short sashes with glazing bars (3x2 panes); all the sashes in openings with rubbed brick, flat-arched heads and projecting stone sills. At rear is bow-fronted end of wing of two storeys, with stone string courses at first level and below brick parapet; on each floor in the bow three tall sashes with glazing bars (3x5 panes) in openings with flat-arched heads of five raised-and-stepped stone voussoirs and projecting stone sills; set back to right of wing a hipped projection of two storeys, in its end wall on the first floor a pair of casements with glazing bars and on the attic floor a pair of small casements. The mid C19 lateral range to right of main block, now the music school, of one storey with front of seven bays; on the front in left-hand bay a doorway with rectangular fanlight, and in bays to right six sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes); at rear at right-hand end right a wing with polygonal end, and sashes with details similar to front. INTERIOR: the main block contains entrance hall with arched doorway leading into a large, central stair well with domed skylight above an open-well staircase with open string, shaped tread-end brackets, stick balusters and swept handrail;

principal rooms on both floors retain original joinery, including several doorcases with reeded architraves and paterae on corner stops, six-panel doors, dado rails and enriched cornices; on the first floor large room in rear wing has apsidal end. Brick vaulted cellar.

Listing NGR: SO8322118845

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.