NUMBER 7 BEAUFORT BUILDINGS

NUMBER 7 BEAUFORT BUILDINGS, 7, SPA ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271783
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 7 BEAUFORT BUILDINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 7 BEAUFORT BUILDINGS, 7, SPA ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271783
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Dec-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 7 BEAUFORT BUILDINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 7 BEAUFORT BUILDINGS, 7, SPA ROAD

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:: NUMBER 7 BEAUFORT BUILDINGS, 7, SPA ROAD

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 83133 17912

Details

GLOUCESTER

SO8317 SPA ROAD 844-1/15/312 (North side) 23/01/52 No.7 Beaufort Buildings (Formerly Listed as: SPA ROAD (North side) Nos 1 to 7 (consec) Beaufort Buildings)

GV II

House at east end of Beaufort Buildings terrace. c1835-40; later C19 addition. Brick, stuccoed and painted white on front with decorative wrought-iron balconies, stone details, slate roof, brick stacks. Double-depth block, with the entrance recessed on east side, and rear wing, a later C19 addition on east side. EXTERIOR: three storeys and basement, the front of two bays and a third recessed bay on right; abutting on the right hand-side of the recessed bay, and projectng slightly to the front, the later C19 addition of one storey and basement; on the two bays to left, the projecting, rusticated front to the basement has panelled, clasping pilasters at the corners and in the centre a pair of similar pilasters; at ground-floor level the top of the basement projection forms the floor of a verandah with a decorative, wrought-iron balustrade; on the rusticated ground floor the outer corners of the two bays to left and the recessed bay to right have clasping strip pilasters, and a pilaster between the two left-hand bays; on the first and second floors above the ground-floor strip pilasters is a giant order of clasping and intermediate pilasters, all with moulded bases and capitals, a raised band between the pilasters at second-floor level; crowning entablature and coped parapet above; on the two bays to left at first-floor level between the corner pilasters a cantilevered balcony in three bays with delicate filigree, wrought-iron standards, balustrade panels, and drop friezes, all supported on iron brackets and with a metal, tented canopy roof; on the first floor of the recessed bay a cantilevered balcony of wrought-iron with similar details. On the ground floor of the recessed bay the entrance doorway is approached by a wide flight of stone steps flanked by decorative wrought-iron balustrades; the doorway with segmental arched head, and framed by moulded architrave, encloses timber-framed fanlight with radiating glazing bars, sidelights, and late C20 door replacing original fielded

six-panel door. On the ground floor in each of the two bays to left a tall sash with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings with rusticated, flat-arched heads, give access to the verandah; on the first floor in each bay a sash with glazing bars (3x4 panes) give access to the balconies, on the second floor in each bay a sash with glazing bars (3x4 panes), all in openings with projecting sills; in the front of the later C19 wing to right clasping pilasters at the corners and eaves cornice, on the ground floor a tripartite window with plain sashes. INTERIOR: not inspected. A slightly smaller version of No.29 & 31 Spa Road (qv) by Sir Robert Smirke.

Listing NGR: SO8313317912

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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.