6, COLLEGE GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271597
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:: 6, COLLEGE GREEN
Statutory Address:: 6, COLLEGE GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271597
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:: 6, COLLEGE GREEN
Statutory Address 1:: 6, COLLEGE GREEN

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:: 6, 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 83036 18746

Details

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW COLLEGE GREEN 844-1/8/70 (South side) 12/03/73 No.6

GV II

House. Incorporates C16 or early C17 structure, considerably enlarged and remodelled 1807. Brick, partly faced in ashlar and stucco, timber-framing mostly concealed, slate roof with dormers, two brick stacks. PLAN: double-depth block with wing at rear to right; the wing is the remaining portion of the Sexton's House which faced east, it now overlooks a walled garden at rear of the main block; between the south end of the wing and the south flank of the monastic precinct wall a short portion of a longer timber-framed range now partly enclosed within the wing. EXTERIOR: two storeys and attics with a cellar below the main block; symmetrical front of main block faced in ashlar, of five bays with a slight projection to the central bay; offset plinth, band at first-floor level, frieze band and crowning cornice with parapet above, raised quoins at the outer angles; in the central bay a wide entrance doorway with semicircular arched head containing fanlight of batswing pattern with metal glazing bars, three stone steps to threshold, doorcase of three-quarter Roman Doric columns, dosserets and an open pediment, a six-panel (2x3) door with the upper four panels fielded; on the ground-floor sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in the bays on each side and on the first floor similar sashes with the central sash set within a basket arched recess, all in openings with flat-arched heads and projecting sills; three roof dormers with segmental curved roofs and sashes with glazing bars (3x2 panes). At either end of main block a shaped and coped gable supports a stack with crowning cornice and ceramic chimney pots. The east gable-end wall stuccoed on the ground floor and the stone band at first-floor level continued from the front, brick above; to right on each floor a single sash similar to the front sashes and on the first floor to left a blocked window recess. The rear wing, two storeys and attic; on the east side the three southern bays of the former five-bay front of the Sexton's House now faced in stucco and with timber crowning cornice, on both floors sashes with glazing bars, 3x4 panes, roof dormer. INTERIOR: large central hall, an open well staircase to rear with open string, curtail step, shaped tread-brackets, fluted

stick balusters and mahogany wreathed and swept handrail; reeded architraves to doorways with corner blocks carved with paterae; drawing room to left has early C19 joinery, moulded plaster cornice with decorative ceiling frieze, and panelled shutters; room to right has a plainer moulded cornice; the principal room on the ground floor in the rear wing has mid C17 small panel panelling and a late C17 fireplace with surround of fielded panels and a raised keyblock in the lintel. From first floor to attic an early C17 dog-leg staircase with moulded closed strings, turned balusters and toad back handrail; first-floor room at east end of main block has early C19 joinery; over the timber-framed bays at the south end of the rear wing a double purlin roof with chamfered purlins and inserted collars; doors in the attic are made up from salvaged C17 and C18 panelling. HISTORY: in late C17 this building was the Sexton's House. (Eward S: No Fine but a Glass of Wine, Cathedral Life at Gloucester: Salisbury: 1985-: 315-6).

Listing NGR: SO8303618746

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Legacy System number:: 472161
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Eward, S , No Fine but a Glass of Wine Cathedral Life at Gloucester, (1985), 315-6

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.