BELSIZE HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS

BELSIZE HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1, BRUNSWICK SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245966
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:: BELSIZE HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: BELSIZE HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1, BRUNSWICK SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245966
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:: BELSIZE HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: BELSIZE HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1, BRUNSWICK SQUARE

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:: BELSIZE HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1, BRUNSWICK SQUARE

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 83110 18094

Details

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW BRUNSWICK SQUARE 844-1/12/27 (North side) 12/03/73 No.1 Belsize House and attached garden walls and railings

GV II

House, now flats. c1860. Brick, faced in ashlar on front and on the east side facing Brunswick Road, hipped slate roof with boxed eaves, ashlar stacks. Italianate style. A large rectangular block set back behind front area. EXTERIOR: three storeys and full basement. On the front and east elevations a raised band at first-floor level, a moulded string at first-floor sill level, and a moulded band at second-floor sill level; on all sides a crowning, ashlar, frieze band with pairs of shaped brackets supporting the eaves; at the corners of the block raised and chamfered quoins; the front of two asymmetrical bays, on the ground floor to right, a projecting, single storey entrance porch approached by a long flight of stone steps, the opening to porch flanked by antae and with a crowning entablature to front and sides with paterae on the frieze, to left of porch a canted bay window to basement and ground floor with crowning cornice and sashes to both floors in each face; on the first floor to right, a sash in opening with architrave frame and a floating, open segmental pediment supported on consoles; further to right a tripartite window with sashes framed by pilasters and a floating cornice supported on consoles above each side sash and an open segmental pediment above the wide central sash; on the low second floor a single sash to right and a tri-partite sash to left in openings with eared architrave frames. On the east side facing Brunswsick Road plain irregular openings to the basement; on the ground floor five sashes in irregularly spaced openings, all with architrave frames and moulded sills supported on shaped brackets; on the first-floor sashes spaced at intervals to ground floor but the central window of two lights with sashes, all in architrave frames with floating cornices supported on consoles; on the second floor short sashes spaced at same intervals as floor below in openings with eared architrave frames. On brick garden front at rear an ashlar, canted bay window to basement and ground floor, with crowning entablature and blocking course; on the ground floor a pair of French doors with fanlight and a narrow sash in each canted side, to left

of the bay a single sash and on the first floor two sashes, all in openings with flat arched heads of five raised-and-stepped stone voussoirs and projecting stone sills; on the second floor two casements with glazing bars. Generally on all elevations the sashes on the ground and first floors have a single horizontal glazing bar in each sash frame, sashes on the second floor on the front and sides have central, vertical glazing bars. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: on the street front the basement area fence to left has an ashlar plinth below a decorative wrought-iron railing set between tall, square, ashlar piers; to right a third pier flanking the entrance steps, all the piers with moulded bases and caps.

Listing NGR: SO8311018094

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Legacy System number:: 472108
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.