58, WESTGATE STREET (See details for further address information)

Terrace of five shops and offices at the corner of Westgate Street and College Street, Gloucester, designed by architect FW Waller and built in 1890. The building employs red brick in English bond with red terracotta and stone details, timber-framing, tiled roofs, gables and gabled dormers with scalloped and pierced timber barge boards, and tall brick stacks. The design is in the Domestic Revival style.

The terrace forms a long, single-depth range, with No.58 Westgate Street positioned at the southern end to accentuate the importance of the approach to the cathedral via College Street. The ground floors contain shops, with offices above. At the north end a carriageway provides access to the rear of the shops.

No.58 Westgate Street comprises three brick storeys and a jettied, timber-framed attic storey with a gable on each outer face. Above the quadrant corner sits a polygonal fleche with a decorative wrought-iron finial. No.2 College Street, to the left of a projecting chimney stack, is of two brick storeys with a jettied, timber-framed third storey and attic with two gabled dormers. Nos 4, 6 and 8 have identical fronts: two brick storeys with jettied timber-framed attic storey, the jetties supported on corbels.

On the ground floor, No.58 Westgate Street features a shop doorway with semicircular arched fanlight in the canted angle at the street corner. On each side of the corner are shop windows with three-light and upper transom timber frames containing leaded glazing in the upper lights. Nos 2–8 College Street each have a doorway with segmental arched fanlight, and to the left of each doorway a shop window similar to that of No.58 Westgate Street. A continuous tiled hood supported on timber brackets runs over the shops, with a stone string course at first-floor level.

At first-floor level, No.58 Westgate Street features a quadrant corner embellished with a cartouche in an elaborately moulded panel within an ogee-arched frame, all in moulded terracotta. On the south front is a projecting, stone-framed five-light mullion and upper transom casement window; on the west side a similar four-light window. The first floor of Nos 2–8 College Street has a three-light window above the shop window to No.2, and a five-light window above each of the other units. Above the doorway to No.2 is a polygonal timber base for a proposed projecting balcony on the second floor, supported by brackets from a moulded corbel; on each side of the base is a recessed single-light casement with upper transoms. Above each doorway in the other shops is a similar window.

On the second floor of No.58 Westgate Street, the lower zone contains timber-framing with arched panels infilled with plaster decorated with roses or fleur-de-lys in relief. In the south gable is a canted oriel window of five arched lights; under the west gable a similar four-light window. The second floor of Nos 2–8 College Street features a three-light canted oriel to No.2, and a rectangular five-light oriel with dormer gable above each of the other units, all oriels supported on timber brackets.

At the south end is a two-storey entrance to the yard at the rear of the range, with a carriageway and a gabled first floor with timber-framed front.

A metal commemorative plaque attached to the west front on the right-hand side of the doorway to No.2 College Street bears the inscription: "In 1890 the street was widened from 10' 9", the buildings on the eastern side were afterwards erected by the Gloucester Cathedral Approaches Co Ltd involving a sacrifice of £10,000. FW Waller Archt".

The interior was not inspected. This is a competent design in the Domestic Revival manner, which makes a significant contribution to the streetscape in this area. Waller exhibited a perspective drawing of these buildings in the 1894 Royal Academy Exhibition.