Gothic Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Gloucester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1973. Cottage.
Gothic Cottages
- WRENN ID
- fossil-screen-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gloucester
- Constituency
- Gloucester MP: Alex McIntyre (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gothic Cottages, 7 and 8, Barton Street
- OS grid reference
- SO 838 180
- Coordinates
- 51.86079, -2.23614
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gothic Cottages, built around 1820, are a pair of semi-detached cottages located on the north side of Barton Street in Gloucester. Constructed of brick with a stuccoed front, the cottages feature a roof designed to resemble slate, topped with blue brick capping. The left-hand house has a plain chimney without corbelled courses. These double-depth cottages have rear wings and are mirror images of each other, facing Barton Street at the south end of a short cul-de-sac.
The exterior is two storeys high with a symmetrical front showcasing Gothic details. A brick dentil crowning cornice and a low parapet adorn the top. At the center, there are two adjoining entrance doorways with shallow ogee-arched heads, framed by bolection mould architraves. The doors are panelled, with ogee heads; the right-hand door has been replaced by a 12-panel door featuring vertical raised and fielded panels. On either side of the doors, there are windows with two arched lights, and on the first floor, there are three similar windows, with the central window divided between the two cottages. All windows have projecting stone sills and moulded surrounds.
The interior has not been inspected. Historically, these cottages served as an isolation hospital during the cholera epidemic of 1832.
Local climate
Gothic Cottages 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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