Gothic Cottages Numbers 1 And 2

GLOUCESTER

SO81NW STROUD ROAD 844-1/3/332 (West side) 12/03/73 Nos.257 AND 259 Gothic Cottages Nos.1 and 2

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Formerly known as: No.257 Gothic Cottage STROUD ROAD. House, now subdivided as two dwellings. C1830s with C20 addition at rear. Ashlar, fish-scale slate roof with elaborately scalloped eaves boards, steeply-pitched gables with elaborately scalloped barge boards and shaped apex finials, ashlar stack and two brick ridge stacks. Picturesque Tudor Gothic style. A parallel range with a central cross-gabled projection to front with gabled entrance porch to left and a hipped wing to rear. EXTERIOR: one storey and attic; the front gabled projection has large four-light stone mullioned casement window with an upper transom and an eared hoodmould above; porch to left has coped gable with kneelers and arched entrance doorway with C20 vertical boarded door; above the porch a cross-gable; within the central gable a two-light casement with a central stone mullion and in the gable to left a single-light casement; to right a tall, projecting, ashlar stack with side offsets and corbelled cap; the gabled ends of the range are identical, each with a central slightly projecting bay capped by a cornice below a stone roof; within each end-gable a two-light stone mullioned casement with a central stone mullion; all the casements have C20 glazing. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8356116622