Gloucester Services Club

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW WESTGATE STREET 844-1/8/398 (North side) Nos.52 AND 54

GV II

Includes: Gloucester Services Club COLLEGE STREET. Block of two shops and former dwellings. c1870, C20 alterations. Rear part of No.52 now a club; upper floors of No.54 part of Lamprey Hotel No.56 Westgate Street (qv). Ashlar facing on brick, cast-iron shop-front, slate roof. Double-depth block. EXTERIOR: three storeys and cellars; the front a unified facade in an Italianate style; on the ground floor two shop-fronts framed by rusticated strip pilasters capped by carved brackets supporting blocks at the ends of fascias above the shop-fronts, on the face of each block a finely sculpted head in relief within a roundel, the fascias capped by string courses between the blocks; No.52 to right has original, cast- iron, arcaded shop window with a central recessed entry to the doorway, moulded shafts with moulded capitals and bases attached to the slender piers, and arches with roundels in the spandrels; No.54 to left has mid C20 shop window; at first-floor level a moulded cornice on consoles, and similar crowning cornice on pairs of brackets with panelled parapet above; on the first floor two plain, horned sashes to each unit in openings framed with moulded architraves on each side and a plain segmental-arched head, with floating cornice supported on heavy console end-brackets and projecting sill on small end-brackets; on the second floor to each unit two similar sashes each in an opening with a segmental arched head, and moulded architrave with a carved key stone in the arch. INTERIOR: not inspected. Of principal interest for the prominent facade in a Italianate style, characteristic of mid C19 commercial architecture and also distinguished by a good surviving shop-front to No.52.

Listing NGR: SO8304418681