5, Pitt Street

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW PITT STREET 844-1/8/238 (North side) 23/01/52 No.5 (Formerly Listed as: PITT STREET Nos.5 TO 13 (Consecutive))

GV II

House, now part of public school boarding house, linked with and entered from Paddock House, Pitt Street (qv) adjoining to right. Late C18, minor mid C19 alterations. Brick, hipped tiled roof, gabled roof dormer, brick stack. A small block and wing wing to left enclosing small, brick-walled forecourt. EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic; on the front of main block and wing to left, a stone eaves cornice with close-set modillions, the entrance doorway, possibly inserted, in the main block adjoining wing, the doorway formerly within a single-storey porch in the re-entrant angle as indicated by scars on the wall faces; on the first floor above the doorway a small side-hung sash with glazing bars (3x2 panes), in the front of the wing on each floor a mid C19 horned sash with central, vertical glazing bar, both sashes in original openings with contrasting, red brick quoins to jambs, rubbed brick, segmental-arched heads and with projecting sills; to front of wing on hipped roof the dormer with pair of mid C19 casements. At rear on each floor a sash with glazing bars to right (3x4 panes); to left on first floor a two-light timber-framed window with a sash with glazing bars (2x4 pane) in each light. INTERIOR: some original joinery.

Listing NGR: SO8320818862