13, College Green

GLOUCESTER

SO8218NE COLLEGE GREEN 844-1/7/78 (West side) 23/01/52 No.13

GV II

House. 1735-6. By John Pasco. Brick with stone details, slate roof with dormers, gable-end stacks. Double-depth block, the accommodation increased by a short extension into the south end of No.14 College Green (qv) adjoining to right. EXTERIOR: two storeys, attic and cellar. The front of three bays, red brick in English bond with raised stone band at first-floor level and a coved and moulded timber eaves cornice returned at either end; entrance doorway in the right hand bay approached by flight of four stone steps to threshold; doorcase with moulded architrave, frieze of paterae alternating with grooved triglyphs and pediment; in other bays on ground and first floors, sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in flush timber frames; above the outer bays gabled roof dormers, each with pair of casements with glazing bars. INTERIOR: stone paved entrance hall and open well staircase with closed string, suspended newels and barleysugar balusters; on the first floor timber-framing within the south end of No.14 (qv) exposed by the extension to increase the accommodation of No.13; several C18 six-panel doors; brick vaulted cellar with fragment of a medieval masonry wall incorporating part of a door jamb with stopped chamfer. HISTORY: built by John Pasco, master builder of Moulsey, Surrey, as a speculation in partnership with Barnabas Gunn, cathedral organist, on ground leased from the bishop.

Listing NGR: SO8299818846