6 Westgate Street

This building, now offices and retail space, is linked with numbers 8 and 10 Westgate Street to form an integrated block. It largely dates from the middle to late 18th century, although a rear wing incorporates an earlier structure, possibly from the 16th century, which was altered in the early 18th century. Further alterations occurred in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

The main facade is brick, with a slate roof featuring large, early-type slates and flat-roofed dormers. The building is three storeys high with an attic. The ground floor front was remodelled in the 20th century in conjunction with the adjacent shopfront, now featuring a large 20th-century window framed by stone pilasters. An entablature extends across from number 8 Westgate Street. The upper floors are constructed of dark red brick and contain two six-over-six timber-framed sash windows on each floor, set within openings featuring rubbed brick flat arches with raised keystones. A stone-capped parapet sits at the top. The attic has two dormers, each with a pair of plain casement windows. The exposed west side of the rear wing is painted white. The rear wing’s first floor features three early 18th-century sash windows with thick glazing bars, arranged as nine-over-nine panes. The second floor has 19th-century sash windows with central vertical glazing bars.

The interior is notable for a "Tudor Room" located on the first floor of the rear wing, accessed through a lobby off the main staircase of number 8 Westgate Street. In 1895, the 16th-century panelling in this room was restored and re-arranged, with additional panelling brought in by G.A. Howitt. The west wall’s window embrasures feature early 18th-century fielded panel shutters, while the other three walls have 16th-century panelling including linenfold panels framed by barley sugar shafts. A fireplace in the north end wall has a moulded surround and a frieze of linenfold panels; some panels are carved with heraldic devices, including the arms of Henry VIII, the pomegranate of Catherine of Aragon, and the monogram ‘TP’ for Thomas Payne, Sheriff of Gloucester. Carved heads in profile are also incorporated into the panelling. Behind the doorway, a stair turret at the rear of the wing contains a rebuilt, early 18th-century staircase with square newels and barley sugar half-balusters; other balusters were apparently reused by Howitt to frame linenfold panels in the Tudor Room.