Community House And Attached Wall With Piers

This is a house, dating back to 1774, originally assigned to the Prebendary of the Fifth Stall of Gloucester Cathedral and now used as offices. An earlier house stood on the site, and there is some evidence of a medieval range incorporated into the rear wall. The building underwent alterations and additions in the mid-19th century. It is constructed primarily of brick with stone details, while the front ground floor is faced in rusticated ashlar and the upper floors are stuccoed with stone details. The roof is hipped and covered in slate.

The plan consists of an 18th-century range facing south towards St Mary's Gate and the Inner Gate. A large mid-19th-century service wing extends to the rear on the left side. Inside, a central entrance passage leads to a rear staircase, and the first floor contains two large, former reception rooms.

The symmetrical front has three bays that project slightly and are topped by a pediment. The ground floor is rusticated, with a raised stone band and a stone cornice with Ionic modillions. The ground floor features a central doorway and two sash windows on each side, with cambered arched heads and rusticated voussoirs. The two right-hand ground-floor windows retain wrought-iron window guards on brackets. The first floor has five large sash windows with slender glazing bars, while the second floor features five shorter sash windows with glazing bars.

Internally, the staircase has a solid string, slender column-on-vase balusters, a ramped mahogany handrail to the first floor, and a "toad back" handrail to the attic. A semicircular arched window with margin lights in the stairwell contains a mid-19th-century stained glass panel. The first-floor reception rooms retain 18th-century moulded plaster friezes and dentil cornices, along with moulded skirtings and chair rails, although the west room has had these largely replaced. The cellars reveal exposed timber beams and rubble walling. A later 18th-century service staircase with stick balusters provides access to a room on the first floor of the adjoining Inner Gate.

A late-18th-century brick wall with pyramidal piers extends to the rear (north) and connects to the wall of No. 1 Miller's Green.