17, College Green

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW COLLEGE GREEN 844-1/8/84 (East side) 23/01/52 No.17 (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE GREEN Nos.17 AND 18)

GV II

House, now offices. Late C1/ early C17 with C18 and late C19 alterations. Timber frame, rendered brick, end-gabled slate roof with hipped roof dormers, brick stack at rear. Single depth, end-gabled range built against the west side of the former wall which separated the former lay and monastic cemeteries. EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic. On the front timber-framing at first-floor level may be concealed by render and underbuilt in brick, the outer roof slope raise raised as indicted by timber-framing in the north gable. On the ground floor to left is an added, flat roofed projection with crowning cornice; the right hand end of the projection has a six-panel door with the upper four panels glazed, and to left are two sashes with glazing bars in the lower frames, to right of the projection two similar sashes and a band at first-floor level. On the first floor in the centre a sash and to left a sash, both with glazing bars (3x4 panes), and to right a late C19 three-light casement in projecting timber frame, two dormers each with a pair of casements. In the north gable-end wall a central, large timber-framed panel inserted in late C19 containing at ground-floor level a pair of sashes and at first-floor level a pair of similar sashes, between the lower and upper sashes four small framed panels with decorative diagonal bracing; in the gable exposed original framing with collar tie and queen posts enclosing rectangular panels, and diagonal struts in the angles. INTERIOR: no features of special interest noted in partial inspection; C16/C17 features concealed under later work.

Listing NGR: SO8311818729