1 And 1A-9, College Court

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW COLLEGE COURT 844-1/8/65 (West side) 23/01/52 Nos.1 AND 1A-9 (Odd)

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Row of five shops and former dwellings. Nos 1 to 7 are C18 with C19 and C20 alterations, but may incorporate C15-17 structure; No.9 substantially remodelled in 1979 as The Beatrix Potter Centre for Messrs F Warne. Brick and stucco, slate roofs. Row of small shops of varying widths, Nos 3 to 9 double-depth block. EXTERIOR: Two and three storeys. Nos 1 & 1A attached to rear of No.60 Westgate Street (qv), of 2 storeys and attic and 3-window range with first-floor sashes with glazing bars (6x6 panes) and three C20 dormers; c1920s shop-front in severe style with angled brackets to fascia continued through to lower 2-storey, one-window range which has segmental brick header arch over similar horned sash, and to gabled front of No.3 which has 2 similar sashes and mid C20 casement to apex of gable. No.5 of 2 storeys with attic, 2-window front, with segmental arches over horned late C19 sashes (2x2 panes) and late C19 shop-front with iron columns to plate-glass windows with splayed brackets to fascia and glazed door. No.7 of 3 storeys, 3-window front; reconverted to dwelling in 1953 with keyed flat arches over bowed tripartite windows with glazing bars flanking doorway with bracketed entablature and segmental pediment, framing 6-panel door with 1953 date to glass; similar arches over paired first-floor and second-floor sashes with glazing bars (all 6x6 panes); dentilled eaves. No.9 of 2 storeys: shop window with small panes in glazing bars to right, above a timber hood supported on knee brackets, on the first floor a horned sash with glazing bars (3x4 panes) and wrought-iron bracket with shop sign. INTERIOR: not inspected, but much alteration in C19 and C20 with some older beams; mid C18 staircase with column-on-vase balusters to No.3. EXTRA INFORMATION: the Beatrix Potter Centre (No.9) alterations were designed to copy more exactly the illustrations of the tailor's shop in the story for children: " The Tailor Of Gloucester" by Beatrix Potter, published 1902. The VCH (p.72) notes a building lease for 4 tenements on west side of Crafts Lane (now College Court) which were to have hall and shop on ground floor and solar on jettied upper floor: a detailed investigation would reveal whether any of

this structure has survived. (VCH: The City of Gloucester: Oxford: 1988-: 72).

Listing NGR: SO8307818685