72, Eastgate Street

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW EASTGATE STREET 844-1/12/116 (South side (off)) 23/01/52 No.72 (Formerly Listed as: BARTON STREET (South side) Sir Thomas Rich's School and No 26)

GV II

House. c1800, later minor alterations. Brick partly stuccoed, stone details, slate roofs, brick stacks. Facing Eastgate Street at the south end of a cul-de-sac, a double-depth block with a full height bow projection at rear and a small entrance wing attached on the right hand side. EXTERIOR: main block of three storeys and basement, two storey entrance wing. Front of the main block of three bays with the basement storey set within a partly railed area and painted white; stone band at first-floor level, stone crowning cornice with close set modillions, brick parapet; the basement has a single sash with glazing bars; on both the ground and first floors three sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes); on the second floor three shorter sashes with glazing bars (3x3 panes), all in openings with flat-arched heads of five raised and stepped stone voussoirs and projecting stone sills. The stuccoed front of the entrance wing has arched doorway to left with fanlight crudely renewed in C20 and framed by stone doorcase of Tuscan pilasters and entablature; an eight panel door of raised and fielded panels; a sash window to right and a central sash on the first floor, both with glazing bars (3x4 panes). The garden front at rear has details similar to the entrance front except for fully exposed basement storey; on each floor the bow to right has three sashes and to the left of bow on each floor a single sash, all with glazing bars. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: a panel fixed to the front is inscribed: "This building previously named "Richleigh" and later known as School House formed part of Sir Thomas Rich's School sited here 1889-1964."

Listing NGR: SO8339618299