The Elms

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NE LONDON ROAD 844-1/9/168 (South side) 12/03/73 No.44 The Elms

GV II

Detached villa, now health authority offices. c1825. Stuccoed brick, hipped slate roof, stuccoed brick stacks. A wide block, the entrance in a central projection on the front approached through a single storey porch; single storey wing to left. EXTERIOR: two storeys, attic and basement. Symmetrical front of three bays with offset plinth, raised band at first-floor level, crowning frieze band and plain cornice band. On the ground floor is projecting, single-storey porch in the Tuscan order enclosed at each end with the inset opening protected by a projecting portico, with columns at the outer corners supporting the entablature and parapet above; doorway with segmental arched fanlight. In the bays to either side of porch a sash, on the first floor a tall sash in the projecting central bay in opening with the sill at the level of the projecting band and flat arched head with five raised-and-stepped voussoirs, shorter sashes in the side bays in openings with projecting stone sills; all the sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes). Similar sashes at sides and rear. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8383718818