Numbers 8, 10 And 12 And Attached Area Railings

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW CLARENCE STREET 844-1/12/63 (East side) 12/03/73 Nos.8, 10 AND 12 and attached area railings (Formerly Listed as: CLARENCE STREET (East side) Nos.8 TO 12 (Even))

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Terrace of four town houses, now offices. c1840. Part of the development of Clarence Street by William Rees, builder. Late C20 alterations. Ashlar, hipped slate roofs, brick stacks. Nos 8 & 10 a double-depth, mirror-image pair, No.12 a similar house but now part of 10: a large former house on corner of street with entrance front and single-storey wing to left facing Russell Street. EXTERIOR: three storeys, basements and attics. On the fronts facing Clarence and Russell Streets the rusticated ground floor is capped by a raised band at first-floor level; the two bays at the north end are defined by shallow piers; on the upper floors the width of the houses, each of two bays, is defined by slender, giant pilasters with moulded bases and capitals, with a raised band between them at second-floor level, supporting a crowning entablature with parapet above masking the roof dormers. On the ground floor a recessed doorway with rectangular fanlight and panelled door to each house, to left or right, approached by stone steps above the basement areas, and a single sash, except for two sashes at north end of No.12; on the first floor two sashes and on the second floor two sashes to each house, all with vertical bars to the sides except for sashes in the two bays at north end which have margin bars. Symmetrical front of No.12 facing Russell Street of three bays with slightly projecting central bay, on the ground floor in the centre the wide entrance doorway to No.12 Clarence Street, with rusticated jambs and segmental-arched head, is framed by pilasters and entablature with segmental pediment, recessed in the doorway a glazed late C20 door and surround; in bay to each side of doorway a sash; on the first floor in the central bay a semicircular arched sash with moulded imposts and archivolt with raised keystone, in the bay to each side a sash in opening with moulded, eared and shouldered architraves with raised keystone in the head and projecting sill on end-brackets; on the second floor in the central bay two

narrow semicircular arched sashes in a frame of panelled pilasters above a balustraded apron and shaped brackets supporting a cornice, in the bay to each side a sash in opening with shouldered architrave with projecting sill on end-brackets; all the sashes with margin bars; single storey wing to left has offset plinth, moulded cornice with parapet and a seven-light window with stone mullions and projecting sill. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wrought-iron railings to basement areas.

Listing NGR: SO8339618441