6, Pitt Street

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW PITT STREET 844-1/8/239 (North side) 23/01/52 No.6 (Formerly Listed as: PITT STREET Nos.5 TO 13 (Consecutive))

GV II

House, now part of the King's School and assigned to the School Bursar. Late C18, with mid C19 minor alterations. Brick with brighter red brick details, tiled roof, brick stack. A small double-depth block with rear wing to left making L-plan. EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic; the symmetrical front is a slightly cross-gabled wall of three bays, with a shaped, stone-coped gable, and flanked by narrow, slightly recessed walls at each corner; on the ground floor a central entrance doorway with rectangular fanlight and fielded six-panel door recessed in opening with timber-lined jambs and head; on each side of doorway a mid C19 sash, on the first floor in the centre a blind window with recessed brick infill, and on each side a mid C19 sash; all the sashes with central, vertical glazing bars; door and window openings with flat-arched rubbed brick heads, and in the windows projecting stone sills; in the gable a mid C19 two-light casement with upper side-hung lights in original opening with flat-arched head. At the rear a sash with Gothick ogee-arched head. INTERIOR: mostly refitted in C19 and C20, several C20 panelled doors; in room on first floor at rear a mid C19 slate chimney-piece with original painted decoration of vines bearing grapes.

Listing NGR: SO8319918867