Details
GLOUCESTER
SO8318SW CLARENCE STREET
844-1/12/64 (East side)
23/01/52 Nos.18-30 (Even)
GV II
Terrace of eleven town houses, later nursing home and offices,
now all offices. 1832-3. Part of the development of Clarence
Street by William Rees, builder. C20 alterations including
conversion of the four former houses at the south end of the
terrace to nursing home with a new attic storey in mansard
roof. Stuccoed brick with stone details, except ashlar above
first floor of No.26; slate roofs, and hipped mansard slate
roofs with dormers, brick stacks. The houses originally all
double-depth block with rear wings, except the larger house
(No.18 Clarence Street) at the south end with front facing
Russell Street.
EXTERIOR: three storeys, basements, and attics. Facing Russell
Street the front of No.18 Clarence Street of four bays of
varying width with offset plinth, band at second-floor level
interrupted by the raised heads of the first-floor windows,
and crowning entablature, on the ground floor at the outer
corners clasping piers; above the piers on the upper floors,
giant clasping pilasters, with moulded bases and caps,
supporting the entablature; on the ground floor in the second
bay from left a recessed entrance porch framed by Roman Doric
pilasters and entablature with modillion cornice, to left a
sash and to right two sashes in openings with moulded
architraves and projecting sills; on the first-floor four
sashes, each in an opening framed by pilasters, entablature
with pediment supported on console brackets, and projecting
stone sill on end-brackets, on the second floor four short
sashes in openings with projecting sills; all the sashes with
glazing bars (4x3 panes on the ground and first floors, 3x2
panes on the second floor).
Facing Clarence Street each house in the terrace of two bays
with a slight projection to the four houses at the south end
and to the two houses at the north end; across the front a
continuous raised band at first-floor level; on the upper
floors the fronts of the projecting houses at each end are
defined by a giant order of pilasters, all with moulded bases
and caps and set on blocks projecting slightly from the first
floor band.
On the ground floor No.18 has two sashes to right in end of
former house facing Russell Street; other houses have sashes
infilling former doorways with flanking larger sashes with
glazing bars (4x4 panes) and an original doorway with
rectangular fanlight with radiating glazing bars and six-panel
door to former house at left.
No.20 has C20 double sash window and doorway with plain
fanlight to left, both framed by C19 pilasters supporting
fascia.
Nos 22, 24, 26 & 28 have doorways with fanlights, mostly with
radiating glazing bars, and sashes to left with glazing bars
(originally 4x4 panes) in the upper sash frames in Nos 22 &
24.
No.30, originally two houses, has to right a former doorway
infilled with a sash and sash to left, and to the second
house, further left, the doorway with fanlight and a sash to
left, all with plain sashes; to each house on the first floor
two sashes, and on the second floor two shorter sashes, mostly
with glazing bars (3x4 panes).
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SO8344018489
