8, Hare Lane

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW HARE LANE 844-1/8/136 (East side) 23/01/52 No.8

GV II

Merchant's house, now shop and restaurant. Early C16 with later alterations. Timber frame and brick, tiled roof, brick stack to left. A right-angle house of broad plan, the rear wing to left may be the original hall which adjoined former chambers in the front range above the shop; entry to shop and rear yard on right. EXTERIOR: three storeys and cellar. On the front the jettied upper floors underbuilt on the ground floor in C18 with red brick in header courses painted white in C20; the upper storeys timber-framed in two bays jettied at first and second-floor levels with bressumers supported on exposed ends of cross beams and joists, the former knee braces below the beam ends removed in C20, close studding on both floors; on the ground floor C20 windows in timber frames, on both the first and the second floors two early C19 three-light casements with glazing bars in openings with original sill rails. INTERIOR: some evidence on upper floors of timber-framing.

Listing NGR: SO8329218741