Manor Day Centre

GLOUCESTER

SO81NE BARNWOOD ROAD, Barnwood 844-1/4/444 (South side) 10/01/55 Manor Day Centre (Formerly Listed as: BARNWOOD ROAD, Barnwood (South side) The Manor House)

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Manor house, now day centre for the elderly. c1740 with substantial early and mid C19 additions and C19 and C20 alterations. Brick with stone and moulded brick details, a stone slate, end gable roof with gabled dormers to C18 range, otherwise Welsh slate roofs, brick stacks. Double-depth block with C18 front range and parallel mid C19 range at rear and a service wing on right hand side. EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic; the C18 symmetrical front of five bays with a slight projection to the wider central bay; offset stone plinth; projecting stone band at first-floor level and a crowning eaves cornice in moulded brick with close set modillions; at the outer corners projecting, chamfered, stone quoins, on the corners of the central projection bright red brick quoins. The central entrance doorway is framed by a stone doorcase with eared architrave, the entablature with pulvinated frieze and pediment, and with a raised keyblock in the centre of the head; a recessed eight-panel door, the lower four panels fielded and the upper panels infilled with later leadlight glazing. On the ground floor on each side of the doorway two plain C19 sashes in original openings with bright red, rubbed brick flat arches set with projecting stone key blocks, bright red brick jambs and projecting stone sills. On the first floor five sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes), the central sash in an opening framed by stone, eared architraves and a projecting stone sill supported at each end by stone bracket blocks carved with guttae, the sashes to each side in openings with bright red, rubbed brick flat arches set with raised and projecting stone key blocks, bright red brick jambs and projecting stone sills; three attic dormers with pedimental gables, each with a pair of casements with glazing bars (4x3 panes). Gable-end stacks and a stack at rear of the front range, the left hand and rear stacks with frieze bands and cornices, the right hand stack similar but cornice removed.

INTERIOR: room to left of central entrance hall retains original C18 moulded plaster cornice, generally the other rooms refitted in C19. Originally the manor house of the Bubb family estate. (VCH: The City of Gloucester: Oxford: 1988-: 411).

Listing NGR: SO8636817862