4 AND 6, CLARENCE STREET

4 AND 6, CLARENCE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1271589
Date first listed:
23-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:
4 AND 6, CLARENCE STREET
Statutory Address:
4 AND 6, CLARENCE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1271589
Date first listed:
23-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:
4 AND 6, CLARENCE STREET
Statutory Address 1:
4 AND 6, CLARENCE 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
4 AND 6, CLARENCE 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 83383 18427

Details

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW CLARENCE STREET 844-1/12/62 (East side) 23/01/52 Nos.4 AND 6

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Pair of large town houses, now offices 1832-3. Part of the development of Clarence Street by William Rees, builder. Late C20 alterations. Stuccoed brick, slate roofs. Double-depth block with short rear wings, originally a mirror image pair. EXTERIOR: three storeys, basements and attics; to both houses a single symmetrical front of seven bays with each end bay slightly recessed and the three central bays slightly projected (1+1+3+1+1); the former basement areas now infilled, the ground floor rusticated with a strip pilaster at each end and crowned by a raised band at first-floor level; on the upper floors the three central bays defined by a giant order of four Ionic pilasters and at each end a giant pilaster with moulded impost at second-floor level between the pilasters; a raised band and a crowning entablature with a mutilated cornice; on the entablature over the three central bays a pediment with mutilated eaves and with coped parapets to either side. On the ground floor the entrance doorway to each of the former houses in the second and sixth bays with three stone steps to thresholds, both door frames recessed in openings with moulded architrave surrounds, with side and transom lights; in the three central bays between the doorways and in the end bays sashes with glazing bars (3X4 panes); on the first floor five tall sashes and on the second floor five shorter sashes, all with glazing bars (3x4 panes), all in openings with projecting stone sills. The former iron railings to the front areas have been removed. INTERIOR: not inspected.



Listing NGR: SO8338318427

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472147
Legacy System:
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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.

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