16 And 18, Southgate Street

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW SOUTHGATE STREET 844-1/8/254 (West side) 12/03/73 Nos.16 AND 18

GV II

Pair of shops with offices or dwellings, now bank. c1835, with C20 alterations and additions. Brick, the street front faced in ashlar, slate roof. A large double-depth block with later extensions at rear and extensive internal alterations. EXTERIOR: four storeys and cellar; the front to Southgate Street has steel-framed glazed screen to banking chamber on the ground floor inserted c1965 to replace an ashlar front to the chamber inserted c1920 when the former shops were converted to a bank. On the upper floors the ashlar front of four bays is original with a moulded string at first-floor window sill level, and a band at second-floor window sill level running between grooved quoin strips at the angles of the block, the strips rising to a bold frieze and modillion cornice with dentils above the second storey; the attic storey above the cornice has strips at the angles, a shallow crowning cornice and parapet; on the first and on the second floors sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings with moulded architraves; cornices above the first-floor windows supported on consoles, in the attic storey plain window openings each with a pair of plain casements. Side elevation to Cross Keys Lane of brick with stone dressings in three bays of unequal spacing with string cornices and cornices at the same levels as those on the front; early C20 alterations to windows on the ground floor; windows in the upper floors of the right hand bay are blocked, otherwise sashes with glazing bars in openings with flat arches of raised-and-stepped voussoirs, a blocked window opening to former stair well with round arched head of raised stone voussoirs. INTERIOR: mostly altered and refitted; on the first floor behind the two bays to right on the front elevation, a room retains its decorative plaster cornice with a band of paterae, egg-and-dart and acanthus mouldings, a moulded central roundel on the ceiling; panelled window shutters and picture rail. Cellars not accessible for inspection.

Listing NGR: SO8311218514