78, Westgate Street is a Grade II listed building in the Gloucester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1973. Shop, former dwelling. 2 related planning applications.
78, Westgate Street
- WRENN ID
- tall-spire-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gloucester
- Constituency
- Gloucester MP: Alex McIntyre (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1973
- Type
- Shop, former dwelling
- Address
- 78, Westgate Street, GL1 2NZ
- OS grid reference
- SO 829 187
- Coordinates
- 51.86688, -2.24861
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 78, Westgate Street is an early 19th-century shop and former dwelling, which may incorporate an earlier structure. It has undergone 20th-century alterations. The building is constructed of red brick with a slate roof, arranged as a double-depth block. The exterior features a stone-coped parapet. The ground floor has a 20th-century shop front. The first floor contains two tall, late 19th-century sash windows with horns, each with central vertical glazing bars in the upper frames. The second floor has two short, late 19th-century sash windows with central vertical glazing bars. All sashes are set within original openings with flat-arched heads consisting of five raised-and-stepped stone voussoirs and projecting stone sills. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
78, Westgate Street 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 — 3 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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