Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW WESTGATE STREET 844-1/8/404 (South side) 23/01/52 Nos.59 AND 61

GV II*

Includes: Nos.1 AND 3 BERKELEY STREET. Two shops and town house, now cafe and dwelling. c1720 with C19 and C20 alterations and extensions. Brick with dressed stone details, timber crowning entablature, slate roof, brick stacks. PLAN: single depth with end gable, wing to rear right, and C19 infill in former yard at rear left; original stair turret projects at rear of front range, reduced in height later and capped by gable roof. Service wing at rear subsequently divided as Nos 1 & 3 Berkeley Street now reincorporated as rear part of cafe and dwelling. EXTERIOR: front block of three storeys, attic and cellar; on the front the former shop No.59 on left, now with entrance to cafe, has late C20 front; the former shop No.61 on right has late C19 shop-front, returned with canted angle into Berkeley Street, has slender cast-iron stanchions; the shop fascias framed by moulded consoles; the upper floors of five bays in dark red brick in Flemish bond with stone details painted white, with a raised band with an upper edge moulding at second and attic-floor levels, and a deep, richly moulded crowning entablature with Corinthian modillions; on each of the upper floors four sashes of similar size with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings with rubbed brick flat-arched heads set with raised key stones below the raised bands, and projecting moulded stone sills. Three roof dormers to attic with pedimental gables and double casements. On the elevation to Berkeley Street the end gable of front range to left, with chimney-stack projecting on corbel from first-floor level at the right-hand angle of the gable, and service wing to right of two storeys and attic with a doorway at either end; the doorway to left, formerly to No.1 Berkeley Street, has a moulded stone architrave surround enclosing semicircular fanlight with small key block and C19 four panel door; doorway to right has a C20 four panel door; between the doorways on the ground floor three windows with segmental arched heads, the two windows to the right with C19 sashes, the window to left with a C20 fixed light; on the first floor three large window openings with segmental heads, the openings at each at either end with C18 sashes with glazing bars (4x4 panes), and the central opening partially blocked and a C19

sash inserted in left side. INTERIOR: on the ground floor C20 relining to cafe and service rooms; within the stair turret at rear of main block from first floor to attic an early C18 dog-leg staircase with closed strings, capped newels and several surviving barleysugar balusters; in first-floor room on east side raised and fielded panels within window embrasures; double purlin roof with ridge piece above the attic; room on first floor of service wing has early C19 chimney-piece with reeded architrave surround and corner stops. C18 brick walled and vaulted cellar. Some evidence of timber-framing in the rear wall of the main range may be surviving structure of earlier building. (BOE: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean: London: 1976-: 246).

Listing NGR: SO8301918662

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