15, Gosditch Street

No. 15 Goshditch Street was constructed in 1873 as a Capital and Counties Bank, and is now used as a showroom, workshops, and offices. The building is constructed of coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings, and has a clay tile roof with decorative pierced ridge tiles. It features stone stacks to the left and right ends, with the right stack having three flues grouped on a moulded base with a moulded cap; only the base of the left stack remains. One gable faces the front, and the building is in an eclectic Jacobethan style.

The building is two storeys, with an attic and cellar, and has a four-window front. The first floor has three three-light hollow-chamfered stone mullion and transom windows with 19th-century iron casements in the lower lights and leaded lights above, each light with a Tudor-arched head. These are topped by hoodmolds with diagonal stops. To the left is a similar four-light oriel window with a moulded base, brattishing, and a weathered ashlar roof. The ground floor has three similar three-light windows with cusped heads to each light and foliage carved in the spandrels, adorned with four panels bearing shields displaying the lettering CHELTENHAM, STROUD, REDDITCH, and STOW-ON-THE-WOLD. Moulded shafts flanking each window, with Gothic finial tops, spring from the deep moulded top of the plinth, which continues as an outer moulding of a moulded and enriched stone surround to the door on the left. This door is a pair of studded plank doors with a dogtooth pattern to the heads of the studs, and decorative strap hinges; it has an overlight with three leaded lights with cusped heads.

The gable to the left has a single three-light hollow-chamfered stone mullion window with leaded lights to the left and right, and a similar two-light window in a gabled full dormer to the right. A deep plinth has a moulded top and an offset with vermiculated ashlar below. A moulded string runs over the ground floor, and a moulded eaves cornice has carved heads acting as gargoyles, discharging into square-section cast-iron down pipes with decorative hopper heads. The building has an embattled parapet with moulded coping, and crow-stepped gables to the left and to the dormer, each with a finial. The date "1873" is carved on a ribbon decoration to the gable of the dormer.

The sides and rear of the building are in a similar but simpler style. A pair of elaborately decorated iron gates are attached to the left side.

The interior was partially inspected. A closed-string well staircase to the rear, accessed from a side door, has softwood stick balusters with trefoil heads on the newels, and carved flower pendants. The front left room on the first floor has a moulded stone fireplace with Tudor flower decoration, with a matching moulded cornice continuing beyond a later subdivision. There are moulded stone fireplaces with four-centred arched openings to the rear wing on the first and centre floors, and chamfered stone fireplaces to the rear wing’s second floor, centre and far end, respectively. Stained softwood four-panel doors, moulded timber architraves, and skirtings are found throughout the building.