3, Commercial Road

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE COMMERCIAL ROAD 844-1/11/94 (South side) No.3

GV II

Shop and flats. c1850 with earlier building at rear, C20 alterations. Brick with ashlar front, slate roof. Double-depth block with separate entrances to dwelling and accommodation at rear on left-hand and right-hand side of front. EXTERIOR: three storeys; the front in Italianate style. Two bays with a narrow recessed bay to left; C20 shop-front with doorway to right; above the shop a string course at first-floor sill level and a crowning entablature with blocking course; on the first floor two horned sashes with single vertical glazing bars in openings with moulded architraves, entablatures and projecting sills; on the second floor similar but shorter sashes in openings with moulded eared architraves and projecting sills; the entrance doorway in the narrow recessed bay is set within a panel framed by plain stone jambs and imposts blocks with moulded head between the imposts, with a semicircular fanlight with moulded stone archivolt above; on each upper floor of the recessed bay a narrow semicircular arched sash in a plain opening with projecting sill. INTERIOR: not inspected. Included as a significant part of the streetscape, contemporary in date and architecturally consistent with the other ashlar-faced properties on Commercial Road.

Listing NGR: SO8298818366