24 AND 26, MORPETH STREET
24 AND 26, MORPETH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245711
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 24 AND 26, MORPETH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 24 AND 26, MORPETH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245711
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 24 AND 26, MORPETH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 24 AND 26, MORPETH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 24 AND 26, MORPETH 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 83712 17339
Details
GLOUCESTER
SO81NW MORPETH STREET 844-1/3/218 (South side) 05/06/87 Nos.24 AND 26
II
Semi-detached pair of houses. c1855. Richly detailed and similar to terrace of houses, Nos 70 to 84 Melbourne Street (qv), dated 1855, and presumed to be by same developer. Red brick in English bond with yellow brick bands and dressings, plain tile roof with bands of fish-scale tiles on outer slopes, brick stacks. Double-depth, mirror-image pair, with entrances on each side. EXTERIOR: two storeys; offset plinth, on the front a gable to each house to either side of a central stack corbelled out above a narrow pilaster, and supporting four linked shafts with weathered brick capping and original terracotta pots; at each corner in the plane of the wall a buttress with offset weathered in stone at first-floor level, in each front gable wall on the ground floor a three-light casement, on the first floor a two-light casement, and in the gable a small ventilation slit. Each side wall has an offset eaves course, in the centre a doorway with plain fanlight and originaL-plank door with iron strap hinges, towards the front a blocked opening and towards the rear a two-light casement in a similar opening; all the casements with decorative iron-bar glazing in diamond and hexagon patterns, all doors and windows in openings with shallow, segmental Gothic arched heads with flush key stones; in each arch and above the casements are scalloped panels. At rear on each corner a reduced stack. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SO8371217339
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472364
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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