28, SOUTHGATE STREET (See details for further address information)

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW SOUTHGATE STREET 844-1/12/257 (West side) 12/03/73 No.28

GV II

Includes: No.2 LONGSMITH STREET. Shop and former dwelling. Early C19. Brick with stone details, slate roof. Double-depth block with wing to rear facing Longsmith Street. EXTERIOR: four storeys and cellar; on the front a late C19 shop-front with recessed, canted entrance and a quadrant return at the corner with Longsmith Street; shop windows with full-height glass panels framed by cast-iron colonnettes and shallow segmental arches and shop fascia with cornice and a cast-iron column supporting the corner of the building outside the quadrant corner. On the upper floors the front to Southgate Street of two bays with moulded stone crowning cornice and blocking course, on the first and on the second floors sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes), on the third floor shorter sashes with glazing bars (3x3 panes), all in openings with flat arched heads of five raised-and-stepped voussoirs and projecting stone sills. Front to Longsmith Street of three unequally spaced bays with sashes of several sizes on each of the upper floors, all with glazing bars; at left-hand end of wing a doorway containing fanlight with vertical glazing bars, and four-panel door; all the openings with flat arched heads of five raised-and-stepped voussoirs. INTERIOR: to rear right a staircase with stick balusters; in the principal rooms on first and second floors splayed window reveals with panelled shutters and fielded eight-panel doors; the cellar relined throughout.

Listing NGR: SO8308218488