Gothic Cottages
GOTHIC COTTAGES, 7 AND 8, BARTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271572
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Gothic Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- GOTHIC COTTAGES, 7 AND 8, BARTON STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13896/35
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271572
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Gothic Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOTHIC COTTAGES, 7 AND 8, BARTON 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:
- GOTHIC COTTAGES, 7 AND 8, BARTON 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 83835 18048
Details
GLOUCESTER
SO8318SE BARTON STREET 844-1/13/7 (North side (off)) 12/03/73 Gothic Cottages Nos 7 and 8
II
Pair of semi-detached cottages. c1820. Brick with stuccoed front. Roof in imitation slate, with blue brick capping; left hand house has plain chimney without corbelled courses. Double-depth block with rear wings, a mirror-image pair facing Barton Street at south end of short cul-de-sac. EXTERIOR: two storeys. Symmetrical front with Gothick details; brick dentil crowning cornice and low parapet; at the centre a pair of adjoining entrance doorways with shallow ogee-arched heads and framed by bolection mould architraves; panelled doors with ogee heads; right hand door replaced by 12 panel door (vertical raised and fielded panels); to either side a window of two arched lights and on the first floor three similar windows of which the central window is divided between the two cottages; all the windows with projecting stone sills and moulded surrounds to the lights. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: the cottages were used as an isolation hospital during the cholera epidemic of 1832.
Listing NGR: SO8383518048
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472087
- 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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