The Vicarage

GLOUCESTER

SO81NE HUCCLECOTE ROAD, Hucclecote 844-1/4/459 (South side) 10/01/55 Nos.88 AND 90 The Vicarage (Formerly Listed as: BARNWOOD ROAD, Hucclecote The Vicarage)

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Former houses, now house. c1820 with later minor alterations. For John Major, landowner. Stuccoed brick and stone details painted white, hipped and mansard slate roofs, two gabled dormers on the front of mansard roof, brick stacks with chimney pots. PLAN: central block with hipped roof, a smaller block with mansard roof to right, and a wing incorporating garage to left. EXTERIOR: the central block and wing to left two storeys, the smaller block to right single storey and attic. The front of the central block of three widely-spaced bays with a raised band at first-floor sill level and a coped parapet; on the ground floor a central, projecting, entrance porch with crowning entablature and in the front wall the entrance doorway with moulded architrave and four-panel door with upper panels glazed; to left of porch a canted bay window with crowning entablature has a sash in the front and a narrower sash in each canted side, all with glazing bars (3x4 panes to front and 2x4 panes to sides); to right of porch a pair of C20 French doors with glazing bars; on the first floor three sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes). The lower front of the block to left is flush with the front of the central block and the raised band continues across, the parapet wall above has a crowning cornice; on the ground floor two large sashes with glazing bars (4x4 panes) in openings with floating cornices above and projecting stone sills, above on the mansard roof two large dormers with barge boards to the gables and sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes); on front of wing to left on the ground floor a projecting with garage doors and on the first floor a sash with glazing bars (3x4 panes). Rear elevation has irregular fenestration of mostly sashes with glazing bars; on the central block to left a two-storey canted bay with a sash to front and a narrower sash in each canted side, all with glazing bars (3x4 panes to front and 2x4 panes to sides), to right a C20 French door with sidelights.

INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: originally called Chosen or Coles Villa. From 1862 to 1952 Hucclecote Vicarage.

Listing NGR: SO8706617460