Langham House

GLOUCESTER

SO8218NE BERKELEY STREET 844-1/7/10 (West side) 23/01/52 No.18 Langham House

GV II

Town house, how offices. c1770 with C19 alterations. Brick with stone details, slate roof, brick stacks. Double-depth with short wing to rear left and service wing to rear right; entrance hall leading to staircase at rear. EXTERIOR: three storeys and cellar, Front of four bays with rendered offset plinth, a stone modillion crowning cornice with rendered, stone capped parapet above. Entrance doorway in the second bay from left in doorcase framed by applied three-quarter columns with moulded bases on plinth blocks and feathered capitals supporting dosserets decorated with paterae and an open pediment above a semicircular arch enclosing a radiating cast-iron fanlight; six-panel door, the four upper panels fielded. Sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes) to other bays on the ground floor and to all bays on the first and second floors, all recessed in similar openings with rubbed brick flat arches and projecting stone sills. INTERIOR: C18 fielded panel doors and other joinery; late C18 open-well staircase with curtail step, open string with shaped brackets to tread ends, slender column newels, stick balusters, ramped handrail and dado rail. Late C18 chimney pieces in several rooms with moulded architrave surrounds; in the first-floor front room to left a chimney-piece with pilasters supporting entablature with classical figures on frieze blocks; the chimney-piece in the front room right has an architrave frame and entablature with rosettes carved on the frieze. Brick walled cellar.

Listing NGR: SO8297418631