Copner House

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW SOUTHGATE STREET 844-1/12/264 (East side) 12/03/73 No.43 Copner House

GV II

Town house, now offices. Mid to late C18, mid C19 alterations. Brick, stuccoed front, slate roof with gabled dormers. Double-depth block with carriage way through front range at south end. EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic; front remodelled in mid C19, of four bays. Sill band at first-floor sill level and moulded eaves board with decorative scalloped edge; entrance doorway in the second bay from left with moulded architrave and six-panel door; at right-hand end a carriage way with segmental arch and panelled double doors; on each side of entrance doorway a plain horned sash, and on the first floor four similar, shorter sashes, all in openings with wide, moulded architraves; two gabled dormers with moulded barge boards and apex finials and in each a sash with glazing bars (3x2 panes). Rear elevation on the ground floor has central doorway with flat arched head of five raised-and-stepped voussoirs, on each side of the doorway a Venetian window with a raised-and-stepped key stone in the arch, the central sash in the left hand window with intersecting glazing bars and bars in the narrow side sashes, the right hand window altered in C20 by the insertion of French doors with side-lights, on the first floor two similar Venetian windows with raised-and-stepped key stones in the arches and original sashes with intersecting glazing bars in the arches. INTERIOR: not inspected. The Copner family occupied the house from 1870 to 1938 when it was converted to offices.

Listing NGR: SO8303918381