Deaf Institute

GLOUCESTER

SO8218NE ST MARY'S SQUARE 844-1/7/324 (West side (off)) 23/01/52 No.17 Deaf Institute

GV II*

Formerly known as: No.7 ST MARY'S SQUARE. Town house, later offices of the Deaf Institute (unoccupied 1995). c1690; C20 alterations and additions at rear. Brick with roughcast render on front painted white, stone details painted black, hipped slate roof with gabled dormers, brick stacks. Main block with two slightly projecting wings flanking the entrance and two wings at rear. EXTERIOR: two storeys, cellar and attic; symmetrical front of 2-bay wings and a single central bay (2+1+2), stone band at first-floor level, the former crowning cornice has been removed. The central doorway is approached by three stone steps and a landing between the wings; timber doorframe with a square fanlight above the transom with glazing bars designed as a central diamond pane with border panes; above the fanlight and breaking the first-floor band a stone segmental pediment supported on small moulded end brackets and its tympanum infilled with a carved shell with a central knop and rosettes at each end above the brackets; six-panel door, the upper four panels fielded. To the front of each wing on both floors two sashes with glazing bars (2x4 panes) in openings with flat heads and projecting sills; on the first floor in the central bay a similar sash in an opening with a segmental-arched head; three dormers above the front; the dormer above each wing with a moulded triangular pediment gable and the central dormer with a segmental gable; all with double casements with horizontal glazing bars. INTERIOR: dog-leg stairs with 2 barleysugar balusters per tread and toad-back handrail; newel of 4 clustered balusters; decorated moulded outer strings. Panelled stair hall with fluted pilasters to fielded panels. Ground-floor room to right has raised panelling above and below moulded dado, with raised plain panels and matching 2-panel door and central elliptical arch. Upper floors not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8294618856