57, Westgate Street

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW WESTGATE STREET 844-1/8/402 (South side) 23/01/52 No.57

GV II

Shop and town house, now shop and offices. c1720, early C19 alterations, later C19 extension, altered and restored 1988. Brick with dressed stone details, timber crowning cornice, former slate roof replaced with tile 1988, gabled dormers. Double-depth block with rear wing to left; entrance lobby to offices to left of shop, formerly the entrance to the house. EXTERIOR: three storeys, cellar and attic; on the front the ground floor remodelled 1988, the shop-front and doorway to lobby framed by ashlar piers with banded rustication, a plain fascia above and a segmental cantilevered hood over the doorway; upper floors of four bays in bright red brick in Flemish bond with contrasting dressed stone details; a raised ashlar band at second and attic-floor levels, and a deep crowning entablature with modillions and returned ends; raised chamfered quoins at the outer corners. On each of the upper floors four sashes of the same size, with glazing bars (2x4 panes) in openings with rubbed brick, flat-arched heads set with raised key stones under the raised bands, and projecting, moulded stone sills; below each sill and between the upper raised band and the crowning entablature is a dressed stone, fielded apron panel. Two roof dormers with pedimental gables and double casements. INTERIOR: largely remodelled and relined in C20; on the first floor the front room refitted in early C19, the door and window joinery with fluted architraves and paterae corner blocks; on the second floor in the front room a C18 chimney-piece with a bolection mould surround. C18 brick walled and vaulted cellar.

Listing NGR: SO8302718663