96, 98 AND 100, EASTGATE STREET

This building, located on Eastgate Street in Gloucester, is a house that has been adapted for use as shops and offices. It dates from around 1800 and was originally built for William Fendall, a barrister and banker. The building underwent extensions and alterations in the mid to late 19th century, with shops added to the street frontage, and further alterations occurred in the 20th century.

The construction combines brick, faced with ashlar on the front and rear of the original house, stuccoed additions, and slate roofs. The original house appears to have been built but remained incomplete; it consists of a central cross-range with bowed front and rear walls, a two-bay wing to the right, and a single-bay wing to the left, with shop extensions added in phases.

The house is three storeys high, with a full attic storey above the central range and roof attics above the wings. The lower two storeys of the original front elevation are largely concealed behind the shops. Above the third storey, a crowning cornice is present with shallow pilasters featuring feather capitals on a continuous frieze band. The central attic storey has a thin crowning cornice with a low coped parapet above. The third storey of the bow features a tripartite window containing sashes with glazing bars (the central sash being 3x4 panes), with sashes containing glazing bars (4x3 panes) in each of the two bays to the right and left. The central attic window on the bow is a Diocletian window with a sash containing glazing bars.

The rear elevation, originally the garden front, has a partly rusticated ground floor, capped by a moulded string course and a crowning cornice similar to the front elevation. Raised quoins define the bays of the wings on the first floor, while shallow pilasters are present on the second floor. Tripartite windows with sashes feature on the first and second floors of the bow. Sashes are present in the bays to either side except for a casement on the first floor on the right side. On the second floor, the sashes on either side of the bow are set within slightly recessed arched panels.

The interior of the property has not been inspected. The building was known as Mynd House in the 19th century.