The Georgian House

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ST5445 CATHEDRAL GREEN 662-1/7/30 (North side) 12/11/53 No.7 The Georgian House (Formerly Listed as: CATHEDRAL GREEN (North side) Nos.7 AND 7A)

GV II

House. Late C18. Doulting stone ashlar, Welsh slate Mansard roof between coped gables, stone end chimney stacks. Symmetrical plan, central wide hall to rear transverse staircase. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, 5 bays. Plinth, moulded cornice, plain parapet. Twelve-pane sash windows in plain openings with quintuple-keystoned heads. Central bay 3 has a projecting stone porch with corner fluted Doric columns on plinths, full entablature and pediment, framing a pair of 3-panel doors, the inner doors margin-glazed with decorative semicircular cast-iron fanlight over. The rear has a large arched staircase sash with Y-bars. INTERIOR: the entrance porch has a floor with sunk well, all from one large lias slab. The entrance hall and return corridor have lias slab flooring, and there is a wide elliptical arch on broad fluted responds and with panelled intrados, leading to the transverse staircase with very slender turned-on-square balusters, scrolled string, and mahogany wreathed and swept handrail. The large room to the left has a fluted cornice, and a wide blind recess to the rear wall, with elliptical head; the C19 white marble fireplace is also flanked by arched recesses. The room to the right also with white marble C19 fire surround. At first floor is a plain elliptical arch from the staircase, but filled with later doors, and the top flight of the stair has been modified, but is in matching detail. A first-floor room, right, has an Art Deco fire surround. Doors are generally 6-panel, fielded, in wide moulded architraves, and front windows have original shutters.

Listing NGR: ST5495745903