Perimeter Wall on the east side of the former Her Majesty's Prison Gloucester

MATERIALS: red brick with ashlar details.

DESCRIPTION: the wall bounds the north-east and south-east sides of the former prison yard, on the east side facing onto Barbican Road, between the Outer Gate (qv) and the Prison Governor's House, Commercial Road (qv). It is a plain brick wall with two horizontal stone offsets and evenly-spaced brick pilasters plinths to the Barbican Road face. In the late C20, blue brick coping was fitted to the top of the wall, and the pilasters were repaired or rebuilt. The north end has an additional section of wall built behind the main wall as it turns east/west, in order to remove a corner of the prison yard that afforded an opportunity for nefarious activities. There is a void between this additional wall, which also attaches to the Outer Gatehouse and the actual perimeter wall.