Number 19 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Overthrow Arch
NUMBER 19 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND OVERTHROW ARCH, 19, COLLEGE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245903
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Number 19 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Overthrow Arch
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 19 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND OVERTHROW ARCH, 19, COLLEGE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245903
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Number 19 and Attached Forecourt Walls and Overthrow Arch
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 19 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND OVERTHROW ARCH, 19, COLLEGE GREEN
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:
- NUMBER 19 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND OVERTHROW ARCH, 19, COLLEGE GREEN
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 83113 18704
Details
GLOUCESTER
SO8318NW COLLEGE GREEN 844-1/8/86 (East side) 23/01/52 No.19 and attached forecourt walls and overthrow arch
GV II
Two former C17 houses on site rebuilt or substantially remodelled between 1712 and 1722, for Henry Abbott, Vicar of Barnwood, now single house, the ground floor converted to doctors' consulting rooms. The date 1725 inscribed on a brick; later minor alterations. Red brick with stone details, slate roof with gabled dormers, brick gable-end stacks. Double-depth block with small rear wing to left. EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic. Symmetrical front of five bays, a brick band at first-floor level interrupted by stone segmental arches above the window openings, crowning cornice with finely detailed dentil moulding, and at each corner raised and chamfered stone quoins; central entrance doorway in stone doorcase with moulded, eared architraves, pulvinated frieze and pediment, recessed six-panel door and rectangular fanlight with vertical glazing bars; in C19 the doorway moved by one-bay to right but now replaced in original position; on each side of doorway are two sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes) and flush frames in openings with rubbed brick, segmental-arched heads set with raised keystones, stone segmental arches above, and projecting stone sills; on the first floor are five sashes with similar details, but above each keystone a stone block is carved with a projecting, moulded bracket; early C18 sash with thick glazing bars to right; three roof dormers each with a pair of casements with glazing bars. INTERIOR: on the ground floor central entrance hall with door to mid C18 open well staircase with open string, curtail step, fret-cut tread brackets, column newels, three column-on-vase balusters to each tread and ramped handrail; room to left has panelled dado with chair rail frieze, and fireplace in frame with eared architrave; other rooms on ground and first floors with C18 joinery including panelled window shutters; on first-floor landing doorway with segmental-arched head has original C18 hinged folding door. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: brick forecourt walls with wrought-iron overthrow arch. (Eward S: No Fine but a Glass of Wine, Cathedral Life at Gloucester: Salisbury: 1985-: 297-8).
Listing NGR: SO8311318704
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472177
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Eward, S, No Fine but a Glass of Wine Cathedral Life at Gloucester, (1985), 297-8
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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