Cider House in rear courtyard of The Folk of Gloucester is a Grade II listed building in the Gloucester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1998. Workshop, warehouse.

Cider House in rear courtyard of The Folk of Gloucester

WRENN ID
lunar-gravel-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gloucester
Constituency
Gloucester MP: Alex McIntyre (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1998
Type
Workshop, warehouse
Address
Cider House in rear courtyard of The Folk of Gloucester, Cider House (2 Quay Street) in Rear Courtyard, 99-103 Westgate Street, GL1 2PG
OS grid reference
SO 828 187
Coordinates
51.86673, -2.25037
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cider House, located in the rear courtyard of The Folk of Gloucester, is a former workshop and warehouse that includes the walls of an 18th-century coach house, which was later used as a slaughterhouse. As of 2021, it serves as a community heritage centre. The building dates to around 1830 and has undergone alterations in the mid-20th century and early 21st century.

Constructed of brick, the Cider House features a hipped roof that was retiled in 1979. The elevation facing Quay Street is rendered. The building is a long, single-depth range aligned north to south, positioned at the south-east corner of the museum's rear courtyard.

The exterior consists of two storeys with a tall ground floor. On the west side, there is a brick dentil eaves cornice, and at the north end, a buttress was added in 1979. The west side has irregular openings, and a loft doorway is present on the first floor. The north elevation features a single window on the first floor. The south elevation, facing Quay Street, is gabled with stone coping, a timber-framed, eight-over-eight sash window on the ground floor above a blind opening, and a 12-pane timber-framed window on the first floor.

Inside, the building has an open timber roof spanning four bays, supported by collar trusses and single purlins. There is also a beam fitted in the 19th century with iron pulleys used for raising meat carcasses when the building functioned as a slaughterhouse.

Local climate

Cider House in rear courtyard of The Folk of Gloucester receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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