Cider House in rear courtyard of The Folk of Gloucester

A former workshop and warehouse that incorporates the walls of a C18 coach house, later a slaughterhouse, and now (2021) a community heritage centre. It dates to around 1830 with alterations in the mid-C20 and early C21.

MATERIALS: constructed of brick with a hipped roof that was retiled in 1979. The Quay Street elevation is rendered.

PLAN: a long, single-depth range aligned north to south, situated at the south-east corner of the museum's rear courtyard.

EXTERIOR: two storeys with a tall ground floor. It has a brick dentil eaves cornice on the west side, and at the north end, there is a buttress that was added in 1979. To the right on the west side are irregular openings, and on the first floor is a loft doorway. The north elevation has a single window to first floor. The Quay Street elevation (south) is gabled, with a stone coping, a timber-framed, eight-over-eight sash window to the ground floor above a blind opening and a 12-pane timber-framed window to the first floor.

INTERIOR: the building has an open timber roof in four bays with collar trusses and single purlins. There is also a beam that was fitted in the C19 with iron pulleys to raise meat carcasses when the building was a slaughterhouse.

Formerly listed as: Cider House to east of corner of Folk Museum Courtyard