Shire Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Gloucester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1952. Government building. 15 related planning applications.
Shire Hall
- WRENN ID
- solemn-threshold-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gloucester
- Constituency
- Gloucester MP: Alex McIntyre (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1952
- Type
- Government building
- Address
- Shire Hall, Westgate Street, GL1 2TG
- OS grid reference
- SO 829 186
- Coordinates
- 51.86646, -2.2486
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shire Hall is a building of 1816, originally designed by Sir Robert Smirke for the County Magistrates, with substantial extensions added in 1909-11 by MH Medland for Gloucestershire County Council. The building was largely demolished and rebuilt with major additions between 1960 and 1970, although the original portico and the flanking wings were retained. The building is constructed of ashlar with a composite roof.
The symmetrical facade consists of a giant Ionic portico set between slightly projecting wings. The portico is approached by two shallow flights of stone steps in a forecourt, flanked by later wings. Above the portico is a recessed entablature between parapets with moulded copings above the single-bay wings. Each wing features a central doorway on the ground floor and a sash window on the first floor. The later projecting wings are three storeys high with a basement, and exhibit canted angles at the outer corners. They have plain ashlar plinths, raised bands at ground-floor sill level and above, and a crowning entablature with a balustraded parapet. All the windows are sash windows with glazing bars, and bronze sconces are positioned on either side of the portico.
The interior was largely rebuilt between 1960 and 1970. The former Assize Courts, originally part of Shire Hall, are now listed separately as Crown Courts on Bearland.
Local climate
Shire Hall receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 15 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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