Community House and Attached Wall with Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Gloucester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1952. A Georgian House.

Community House and Attached Wall with Piers

WRENN ID
small-marble-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gloucester
Constituency
Gloucester MP: Alex McIntyre (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1952
Type
House
Period
Georgian
Address
Community House and Attached Wall with Piers, 15, College Green
OS grid reference
SO 830 188
Coordinates
51.86809, -2.24795
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

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.

Local climate

Community House and Attached Wall with Piers receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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