The Fiery Beacon

PAINSWICK NEW STREET SO 8609-8709 (north west side)

8/162 The Fiery Beacon GV II House in row, with art gallery. Mid Cl9 front, but C18 work behind. Limestone ashlar, slate roof. At narrow frontage set gable to street, in a Tudor Gothic front to an earlier body: steep gable drops to short haunches. One window width in 4 storeys; to ground and first floors a wide, square bay with battlements, central recessed glazed door in 4-centred opening flanked by single pointed lights all to square head, with small buttresses in 2 offsets at corners, above this a 4-light stone mullioned casement, pointed heads under square opening to moulding below battlements, and single light returns. At second floor a 2-light, and in gable single light Tudor windows set to stopped hood moulds. At the back of the building a bull's-eye opening above a 12-pane C18 sash. To the right a large square stack. A very attractive little composition acting as a foil to the grand Beacon House (qv) adjoining.

Listing NGR: SO8663509735