Sudbrooke House

Sudbrooke House is a former house and offices dating to the 1840s, originally built for Price and Co, a timber merchant. It is located on the south side of Llanthony Road in Gloucester, at the corner of High Orchard Street. The building is constructed of painted brick and stucco with stone detailing, and has a slate roof.

The original section is a double-depth block situated on the south-west corner. A large extension was added on the east side, initially designed as offices facing the docks. The symmetrical front of the original building features three bays with full-height canted bay windows on either side of the central bay. These windows have a continuous string course and coped parapet, with raised quoins at the outer corners. The doorway in the central bay has a blocked fanlight and a 20th-century door set within a moulded stone architrave. The bay windows contain sash windows with glazing bars (3 x 4 panes), except for the lower frame of the left-hand window which has been replaced without bars, and the narrow, canted sides which have glazing bars (1 x 4 panes). The first floor has a 20th-century sash in the centre and 20th-century side-hung sashes in the bay windows, all contained within stone-framed openings with projecting stone sills.

The side elevation facing High Orchard Street has three sashes with glazing bars, a doorway with an original six-panel door (four upper panels fielded), an infilled opening with a 20th-century three-light casement, and a blocked sash opening with a 20th-century side-hung sash, all with projecting stone sills. Further to the right is a pair of horned sashes, all with glazing bars (3 x 4 panes).

The two-storey east extension has a projecting front with a shallow, canted return corner. At first-floor level, it possesses a moulded string course, a crowning cornice with a frieze band, and a coped parapet. The projection features two sashes on each floor, with single sashes on the sides. The ground-floor sashes have been replaced with 20th-century side-hung sashes with glazing bars (2 x 4 panes). The first-floor sashes retain their original glazing bars (3 x 4 panes to the front sashes, 2 x 4 panes to the side sashes), and are contained within stone-framed openings with projecting stone sills.

The interior was not inspected, but it is noted to have been renewed in the mid to late 20th century, although some 19th-century panelled doors remain.

Sudbrooke House is a complete example of a mid-19th century shop and office, historically linked to and facing north towards the docks.