The Deanery and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings Gloucester, England

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GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW MILLER'S GREEN 844-1/8/203 (West side) 23/01/52 No.1 The Deanery and attached forecourt walls and railings

GV II*

House. Built between 1731 and 1741 and leased to Peter Haynes, gentleman; internal alterations c1810 and c1938. Since 1938 the Deanery, but formerly the cathedral organist's house. Red brick with stone details, slate roof, brick stacks. A double-depth block with entrance forecourt. EXTERIOR: three storeys, basement and attic; symmetrical front of five bays, on the ground floor the central doorway, approached by flight of stone steps, in stone doorcase with moulded architraves and pediment. In bays on each side and on the upper floors sashes with original glazing bars (4x3 panes) in openings with rubbed brick flat arches. At the rear a central, large, semicircular arched window to the stair well with glazing bars, and other sashes with glazing bars; first-floor windows open onto early C19 cast-iron balconies on brackets. INTERIOR: central entrance hall with fielded panels above fielded panel dado and divided by a transverse, moulded basket arch, with open well staircase to first floor at rear; the staircase with column newels, three column-on-vase newels to each tread, and open string with richly carved tread-end brackets; the room to front on left is lined with excellent early C18 panelling installed by Dean Castley-White, c1935, with chimney-piece framed by full height Doric pilasters and entablature, the fireplace in moulded frame, with central patera in the head carved with a swag and a surround of C18 Delft tiles, above a looking glass in an eared architrave frame; in front room to right early C17 square panelling with two C18 fielded panels above fireplace; in room to rear on right an early C19 fireplace surround and moulded cornice. On the first floor the plaster ceiling above the stair well has a central moulded roundel of foliage in relief, in the cross gallery fielded panelling and modillion cornice, panelled double doors to service stairs with fanlight in basket arch, the large room to rear on right refitted in early C19 with chimney piece, window joinery and moulded cornice, in both front rooms with C18 panelling above chimney pieces; in the attic reused C17 panelling. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Entrance forecourt has brick piers at the

outer corners with moulded stone caps and on the axis of the entrance a pair of wrought-iron gates with overthrow between brick piers, each gate pier surmounted by a finely carved stone urn, on each side of the gateway wrought-iron railings between the piers and on each side of the court a brick wall. Wall with pyramidal brick piers to left, attached to No.15 College Green (qv). HISTORY: House was the birth place of Robert Raikes founder of the Sunday School movement. (Eward S: No Fine but a Glass of Wine, Cathedral Life at Gloucester: Salisbury: 1985-: 322).

Listing NGR: SO8303718882