Northgate House And Attached Walls And Railings To Forecourt

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NE LONDON ROAD 844-1/9/163 (North side) 23/01/52 No.19 Northgate House and attached walls and railings to forecourt

GV II*

House, now offices. Mid to late C17, refronted mid C18, later alterations. Brick, stuccoed front with stone details painted white, gable-end slate roof, brick stacks, hipped dormers. A wide double-depth block with rear wing. EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic. Symmetrical front although the windows not spaced at regular intervals; offset plinth painted black, continuous crowning cornice with close set modillions and a large, central pediment with similar modillions above the centre of the cornice. On the ground floor the entrance doorway with architrave surround framed by panelled pilasters and moulded brackets supporting a pediment above; six-panel door, the lower panels fielded; three plain C20 sashes to each side of the doorway and on the first floor six plain sashes, all in openings of similar size; in the tympanum of the crowning pediment a central circular window in a moulded frame; two hipped roof dormers each with a pair of casements with glazing bars; at either end of the front below the cornice, a decorative C18 cast lead rain water head to a pipe. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: at the outer corners of the forecourt are tall brick piers with offset plinths and cornices, between the piers a wrought-iron railing set on a stone plinth and central, wrought-iron double gates framed by decorative wrought-iron standards and overthrow.

Listing NGR: SO8361018804