10, College Green

GLOUCESTER

SO8218NE COLLEGE GREEN 844-1/7/74 (South side) 23/01/52 No.10 (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE GREEN Nos.10 AND 11)

GV II

House. 1735-6, later alterations. By John Pasco. Red brick in Flemish bond, stone details; slate roof, dormers. Double-depth block with wing projecting to left which contains the entrance close to the angle in the L-plan front of the house. EXTERIOR: two storeys, attic and cellar; on the front a stone band at first-floor level, coped parapet. Plain doorway, six panel door with fielded panels and rectangular fanlight with vertical glazing bars. To left a sash with glazing bars (3x4 panes) to each floor and a roof dormer; to right of the wing the main block has two sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes) to each floor and a roof dormer; the sashes in openings with rubbed brick flat arched heads set with raised key stones; early C19 wrought-iron window guards on the first floor of the main block. INTERIOR: entrance hall to right and early C18 open well staircase to full height with solid strings, suspended newels, column-on-vase balusters, toad back handrail; room in north wing on ground floor is panelled with fielded panel dado and plain panels above, moulded cornice, and chimney-piece surround of raised and fielded panels with a fluted key block in the lintel. On the first floor in room in the main block a similar chimney piece; in other rooms some C18 joinery. HISTORY: house built by John Pasco, master builder of Moulsey, Surrey, as a speculation in partnership with Barnabas Gunn, cathedral organist, on ground leased from the cathedral chapter. (Eward S: No Fine but a Glass of Wine, Cathedral Life at Gloucester: Salisbury: 1985-: 303, 315).

Listing NGR: SO8297918809