The Byways

GLOUCESTER

SO8317 MONTPELLIER 844-1/15/215 (East side) 23/01/52 The Byways

GV II

Detached house, now offices. c1818, late C2O alterations. Stuccoed brick, slate roof, two brick stacks on each side wall. Rectangular double-depth blockclosing the vista at the eastern end of Spa Road; small wing at rear, a former wing to rear right demolished c1980. EXTERIOR: three storeys and basement; symmetrical 3-window front with offset plinth, raised band at first-floor level, a crowning bull-nose cornice and parapet; on the ground floor a flight of stone steps with mid C20 wrought-iron balustrades rising into a central entrance porch, the porch in the Ionic order with pairs of columns at the outer corners, pilasters at rear and entablature with pulvinated frieze; the entrance doorway with semicircular arch enclosing fanlight with radiating glazing bars, six-panel door with fielded panels. On each side of portico a sash and on both the first and second floors three sashes, all with glazing bars (4x4 panes on the ground and first floors, 4x3 panes in the shorter sashes on the second floor) and in plain openings with projecting stone sills; on the first floor a bow-fronted, wrought-iron guard to the central window; in the side and rear walls sashes of various sizes with glazing on each floor. INTERIOR: not inspected. Attached wrought-iron railings on stone plinth are mid C20 (not included).

Listing NGR: SO8319417858