19 AND 21, SPA ROAD

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE SPA ROAD 844-1/11/308 (North side) 25/01/52 Nos.19 AND 21

GV II

Pair of semi-detached houses. c1825; later C19 extensions including verandas. Brick, stuccoed front, hipped slate roof, brick stacks, timber-framed and glazed verandahs; the roof of the verandah to No.19 has original spade-shaped zinc tiles; later roof on No.21. PLAN: double-depth block, mirror image block with a narrow recessed wing on the side of No.19; rear wings; added in late C19 across the fronts of both houses, single storey, mirror image, lean-to verandahs, both with a wide, projecting, cross-gabled bay flanking the entrance to each house at the outer ends of the verandahs. EXTERIOR: three storeys; symmetrical front to the main block of four bays and a narrow recessed bay on the left-hand side of No.19; on the front the ground floor is masked by the addition of the single-storey verandahs; The fronts of the verandahs, including the cross-gabled wings, are framed with timber corner posts and mullions and an upper transom as a continuous run of tall glazed panels and square panels above, with a Chinese pattern of glazing bars in most of the upper panels, and glazed panels in the gable; at the outer end of each verandah an entrance doorway with glazed panel doors and a transom light; on the front of the main block above the verandahs a raised band at first-floor level. Upper floors articulated by a four-bay giant arcade of shallow, plain pilasters and basket arches, and above a continuous crowning string course (cornice removed c20) and coped parapet; in each bay on the first floor of the main block and the single-bay front of the recessed wing on the side of No.19 are sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes), the sills of the openings to No.19 at the level of the first-floor band; a bow-fronted, decorative wrought-iron guard to the opening on the front of the wing; on the second floor in each bay and on the wing sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings with projecting stone sills. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8294318003