1, GLOUCESTER STREET (See details for further address information)

PAINSWICK CHELTENHAM ROAD SO 8609/8709 (part) 8/48 No 1 including No I Gloucester Street 7.12.89 GV II House with shop. Circa early C17, extended in circa late C17 or early C18 and altered in C19. Mostly dressed limestone. Concrete tile roof with gabled and hipped ends. C19 white brick gable end stack. Plan: Front range with rear wing. 2 storeys, cellar and attic. South east front to Cheltenham Road has 2 C19 sashes with margin panes on first floor and C20 casement on right of ground floor in earlier openings with keyed lintels; late C19 shop to left with hood mould over 2 large windows and central glazed and panelled door; large gabled dormers to right. Left hand return facing Gloucester Street has one window on each floor with keyed lintel, first floor blocked doorway to left. To left the single bay gabled front of No 1 Gloucester Street has doorway on right, large later window on left and 2-light recessed chamfer stone mullion window in gable above with casements and hood mould. Single storey link to adjoining building on left. Interior: The circa early C17 north west range has 2 deeply chamfered ceiling beams with hollow slightly stepped stops, large stone fire- place with chamfered timber lintel on ground floor, cellar below with 2 cham- fered beams with cyma stops and exposed unchamfered joists. The ground floor of the circa late C17 or early C18 south east range has no features. Circa early C19 staircase with column newels and partly missing balustrade. C18 fielded 2-panel doors on first floor. South east range has late C17 or early C18 4-bay roof structure, the principal rafters have slighted curved feet, tenoned collars and tenoned purlins; 2 of the trusses have upper collars with diminished princi- pals above; most of the common rafters survive with a ridge board at the open. Roof over early C17 (NW) range replaced. Rear (NE) wing has what appears to be one blade of a raised cruck truss.

Listing NGR: SO8676109841