11 Westgate Street

Formerly a shop and dwelling, now offices, dating to the early C19 with a later conversion and extension to accommodate a gentlemen's club (The Gloucester Club) in about 1875. The east wall that flanks the pedestrian entry to Mercer's Passage incorporates a length of medieval stone rubble wall believed to incorporate reused Roman masonry. There were C20 alterations principally to ground floor, and extensions at the rear. The shopfront was replaced, and interior alterations were undertaken in the early C21.

MATERIALS: brick with a stuccoed front and slate roof.

EXTERIOR: four storeys high and has a cellar. The principal elevation is two bays wide above the ground floor glazed and timber-framed shopfront. There is a moulded band at second-floor level, a plain band at third-floor level, and a moulded crowning cornice with blocking course. The upper floors have plain sash windows in openings framed by plain, slightly raised architraves with roundel indented at each upper angle and projecting stone sills. The sills to the second and third floor windows are supported on small, moulded end brackets.

INTERIOR: the ground floor was refitted in 2018. Behind the shop, there is a stair well with an early C19 dog-leg staircase, including stick balusters and ramped handrail. On the first floor two rooms were linked in c1875 to form a single large reception room for the Gloucester Club, elaborately decorated in a French C18 style, with moulded plaster panels on the walls and ceilings, moulded marble chimney pieces and joinery. There exists some early C19 joinery in other rooms.