11, Northgate Street

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW NORTHGATE STREET 844-1/8/220 (West side) 12/03/73 No.11

II

Shop and former dwelling. Originally a merchant's house. C16, refronted in late C18, C20 alterations. Stuccoed timber frame and stuccoed brick; slate and corrugated asbestos roofs; central brick stack reduced to below roof ridges. Double-depth block with parallel pitched roofs, cross gables at rear. EXTERIOR: late C18 three-storey refronting to the C16 two storeys and attic house, cellar below. Late C20 shop-front, the upper floors of four bays with crowning cornice renewed in late C20, parapet above; in each bay on the upper floors flush sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings with moulded architraves and projecting sills, the front is recorded as originally three bays with dormers. On the rear elevation only the first and attic floors exposed; small fixed windows apparently fitted into the pattern of the timber-framing which is otherwise concealed by stucco; in the centre of the base of the south gable a grotesque head in relief, possibly C16. INTERIOR: on the first floor chamfered bridging beams; exposed timber wall framing in room at rear on the south side; in the attic the inner slope of the original central bay of the front pitched roof retains chamfered principal rafters and a chamfered purlin.

Listing NGR: SO8318818599