28, Brunswick Square

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW BRUNSWICK SQUARE 844-1/12/38 (South side) No.28

GV II

End of terrace house. c1860. Stuccoed brick, hipped slate roof, brick stacks. Double-depth block with rear wing, garden front on west side. EXTERIOR: three storeys and cellar; on each elevation raised bands at first-floor and second-floor sill levels between giant strip pilasters to first and second floors, and crowning cornice with closely set modillions. On the front to left on the ground floor a recessed porch, leading to entrance doorway with fanlight, is entered through a semicircular archway in a slightly projecting, rusticated, panel crowned by a moulded cornice at first-floor level; the cornice continues to right on each side of a single storey, canted bay window with crowning frieze band and hipped lead roof. A wide sash in the front of the bay and a narrow sash in each canted side, all in openings with projecting keystones in flat-arched heads. On first floor two sashes in openings with moulded architraves with raised keystones in the flat heads; the left-hand window with a projecting moulded sill supported on volute brackets at each end flanking a moulded panel below the sill: on this sill and at the sill level of the right-hand window on top of the roof of the ground-floor bay are cast-iron window guards; on second floor two shorter sashes in openings with moulded architraves with raised keystones in the flat heads, and moulded sills projecting from the sill band supported on shaped end-brackets. On east elevation the details of ground floor not visible from street at inspection; at left-hand end a two storey, canted bay window to ground and first floors, with modillion crowning cornice and hipped lead roof, in the front of the bay on the first floor a wide sash and in each canted side a narrow sash, on the first floor and on the second floor a sash and on the second floor above the bay window a wider sash, all in openings with similar details to second-floor windows on the front. INTERIOR: not inspected. An integral feature in a good group of early/mid C19 houses in Brunswick Square.

Listing NGR: SO8302518039