Numbers 27 and 29 and Attached Front Area Railings and Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Gloucester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1973. Offices. 6 related planning applications.
Numbers 27 and 29 and Attached Front Area Railings and Gates
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gloucester
- Constituency
- Gloucester MP: Alex McIntyre (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1973
- Type
- Offices
- Address
- Numbers 27 and 29 and Attached Front Area Railings and Gates, Commercial Road, GL1 2ED
- OS grid reference
- SO 828 183
- Coordinates
- 51.86374, -2.24974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 27 and 29 are two office buildings constructed in 1848 for merchants operating in the Gloucester Docks. They are made of brick with a front faced in ashlar and feature a hipped slate roof with a central brick stack. The buildings are arranged in a double-depth block and are mirror images of each other.
The exterior consists of two storeys and a basement. Each building has a front with three bays and a slightly recessed bay at each end, creating a pattern of 1+3+3+1. The basement wall is slightly offset, and there is a first-floor sill band along with a crowning entablature and blocking course. On the ground floor, at either end of the central six bays, there are large doorways approached by stone steps. These doorways have moulded architraves, floating cornices on console brackets, and rectangular fanlights with margin glazing and two-leaf panelled doors. The remaining bays on the ground and first floors feature sash windows with glazing bars (3x4 panes) set in openings with projecting stone sills. The rear has altered sash windows in the basement and tall sashes in the stairwell of each building, flanked by sashes, all with glazing bars.
The interior has not been inspected. The buildings also have wrought-iron railings in the front area, accompanied by three wrought-iron gates.
Local climate
Numbers 27 and 29 and Attached Front Area Railings and Gates 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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