Ferncroft

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW BRUNSWICK ROAD 844-1/12/17 (West side) 12/03/73 No.24 Ferncroft (Formerly Listed as: BRUNSWICK ROAD (West side) Ferncroft)

II

House, now offices and shop. c1820 with slightly later added wing, late C19 and C20 alterations. Brick with stone details, slate roof, brick stacks. Single-depth plan, end-gabled range with later wing projecting forward from the right hand end; the wing altered to incorporate a corner shop. EXTERIOR: two storeys; on the ground floor, approximately central in the front to the range, the entrance doorway to the house is recessed in a semicircular arched opening with keystone in a projecting, painted stone frame capped by entablature and blocking course; fanlight with radiating glazing bars and a fielded six-panel door; on each side of the doorway a sash, original on the left with glazing bars (4x4 panes), replaced on the right in later C19 by sash with single vertical glazing bar; on the first floor three sashes, the central and right-hand sash with glazing bars (3x4 panes), the left-hand sash replaced by sash with a single vertical glazing bar; in the north gable-end of the range a sash on each floor with glazing bars (3x4 panes); in the wing on the ground floor to the front and on the return north side a late C19 shop-front; a blocked window opening on the south side; on the first floor a small, late C19 sash and in the gable-end above the shop-front a sash with glazing bars; all the window openings with five raised and stepped voussoirs to flat arched heads and projecting stone sills. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8313618185