Northend Vaults

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW NORTHGATE STREET 844-1/8/225 (South side) 23/01/52 Nos.86 AND 88 Northend Vaults

GV II

Merchant's house, now public house. Probably late C16 or early C17, refronted in mid to late C18; C19 and C20 alterations. Timber frame, brick, roughcast on front, slate roof, brick stacks. Double-depth block with parallel pitched roofs and pair of steeply pitched cross gables at rear. EXTERIOR: three storeys to front and two storeys and attic at rear, cellar below front range; street front has C20 doors and windows to public house bars on ground floor; on upper floors chamfered quoins at either end and crowning cornice with close set modillions, on each upper floor three identical, mid C19 sashes in timber frames flush with wall face and with central vertical glazing bars; rainwater pipe to left with C18 lead rainwater head. INTERIOR: mid C18 open well staircase from first floor to attic with solid string, column newels, column-on-vase balusters and ramped handrail; in the first-floor front rooms bridging beams with ogee stopped chamfers; in rear rooms on upper floors bridging beams with stopped chamfers; in rear wing on first floor bridging beams with stopped chamfers. Roof not accessible, but photograph on premises shows substantial original timbers.

Listing NGR: SO8338318704