Gladstone terrace
Gladstone terrace
Named for the Prime Minister
Gladstone Terrace is a small
terrace of five
houses, built as
speculative
housing on a
greenfield site
in 1886 by
Samuel Cridland,
a local
builder and
mason. It lies
on the eastern
side of
Brickyard Lane
(today's St
Michael's
Avenue) to the
immediate north
of the
White Horse
pub and
New Prospect
Place.
The terrace features decorative cream brickwork string courses that contrast well with the local red Yeovil bricks - almost certainly made at the brickworks further up the lane.
It was named in honour of William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), Liberal Prime Minister 1868-74, 1880-85, 1886 and 1892-94.
Gladstone is
famous for his
oratory, his
religiosity, his
liberalism, for
his poor
relations with
Queen Victoria
(who once
complained, "He
always addresses
me as if I were
a public
meeting") and
for his rivalry
with the
Conservative
Leader Benjamin
Disraeli,
created Earl of
Beaconsfield and
celebrated in
Beaconsfield
Terrace on
the opposite
side of
Brickyard Lane.
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Gladstone Terrace in St Michael's Avenue, built by Samuel Cridland in 1886. Such a shame that people find it necessary to paint over stone and brickwork to ruin an otherwise pleasing street scene elevation. Photographed in 2014.
The datestone - Gladstone Terrace over SC 1886. Photographed in 2014.
