143-151, SOUTHGATE STREET

A terrace of five houses located on Southgate Street, Gloucester, dating from circa 1835, with later alterations. The buildings are constructed of brick with stone detailing, topped with slate roofs and brick stacks featuring ceramic chimney pots. The terrace follows a double-depth block plan with service wings at the rear. The houses at either end of the terrace project slightly and are wider than the three houses in between, while number 149 is recessed. The front elevations feature offset plinths and a parapet with stone coping. The ground floor has entrance doorways on the left of each house, each with a flight of stone steps leading to a threshold, and semicircular arched, decorative metal fanlights above the doors for numbers 143 and 145; the others have plain fanlights, and six-panel doors, with the exception of number 147 which has a four-panel door. To the right of each doorway is a single sash window. The first floor has two sashes to each of the end houses, and a single sash to the others; bow-fronted, decorative wrought-iron window guards are present on most, except for number 147. The second floor mirrors the first floor’s arrangement, although number 151 has twentieth-century fixed lights in the original window openings. All sashes feature glazing bars, arranged in a 3x4 pane pattern, within flat-arched stone surrounds consisting of five raised-and-stepped voussoirs. The interior of the houses was not inspected.