13 And 15, Stroud Road

GLOUCESTER

SO8217 STROUD ROAD 844-1/15/330 (North East side) 12/03/73 Nos.13 AND 15

GV II

Two houses, may have originally been one house, now offices. Early C19, C20 alterations. Painted stucco on brick, slate roofs. A large block with a full-height recessed bay on the right-hand side containing the entrance, and further right a lower wing projecting to the front. EXTERIOR: three storeys; the front of the block to left of the recessed bay has a central, semicircular bow to the two lower storeys; on the upper floors at the outer corners, and flanking each side of the bow, a giant order of slender pilasters with moulded bases supported on shaped brackets, and thin moulded capitals; between the bases a raised band and a crowning entablature with coped parapet; in the bow on each floor a central sash and narrow side sashes, all curved and with glazing bars (3x4 panes in the front sashes, 2x4 panes in the side sashes), and framed by slender, attached shafts with moulded bases and capitals and projecting sills; on the second floor above the bow a tripartite window with sashes, the central sash with a central, vertical glazing bar; in the recessed bay to right a flight of stone steps to the entrance doorway with fanlight and sidelights framed by pilasters and entablature above, a C20 glazed panel door; above doorway on the first floor a sash with glazing bars (2x4 panes), and on the second floor a shorter sash with glazing bars in the upper frame. In the front of the wing to right on the ground floor a large opening with C20 garage doors, a raised string course at first-floor sill level, on the first floor in each of two shallow, semicircular arched recesses a sash with glazing bars (3x4 panes) and on the second floor two sashes with glazing bars (3x3 panes) in openings with projecting sills. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8287417732