2, CLARENCE STREET (See details for further address information)

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW CLARENCE STREET 844-1/12/61 (East side) 23/01/52 No.2 (Formerly Listed as: BARTON STREET (North side) No.1)

GV II

Includes: No.57 EASTGATE STREET. No.57 Eastgate Street shown on OS map as No.1 Barton Street. House facing Clarence Street and a smaller house attached at rear facing Eastgate Street, both houses designed as a single block, now linked as a single block of offices. 1832-3. Part of the development of Clarence Street by William Rees, builder. Late C20 alterations. Ashlar facing on brick, hipped slate roofs, brick stacks. Double-depth block. EXTERIOR: three storeys and basement, the former basement areas now infilled. Symmetrical front to No.2 Clarence Street of three bays with a slight projection to the central bay, offset plinth, a raised band in the side bays at first-floor level, a similar continuous band at second-floor level and a deep crowning entablature; on the ground floor at the corners clasping piers with moulded bases and, above the piers, giant Ionic pilasters supporting the entablature. Central doorway with stone steps to threshold and doorcase with pilasters and entablature, panelled door; in bay to each side of doorway a sash, and on the first and second floors three sashes, all with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in plain openings with projecting sills. The front facing Eastgate Street has the return end to No.2 Clarence Street of two bays on left and front to No.57 Eastgate Street of two bays to right, both with raised bands, crowning entablature and giant Ionic pilasters at the corners similar to front to Clarence Street, and with a central pilaster strip (former Ionic pilaster removed); on the ground floor the wall faces between the corner piers and the central pier are rusticated; the sills to the two ground-floor sashes to left were lowered, and the ground floor of No.57 Eastgate Street remodelled in late C20 with insertion of a central doorway framed by pilasters and entablature and a sash to each side; on the first floor two tall sashes to left and two tall sashes to left, and on the second floor two sashes to left and two sashes to right, all with glazing bars (3x4 panes). INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8336118400