Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW WESTGATE STREET
844-1/8/385 (South side)
Nos.19A, 21 AND 23
The Fleece Hotel (part)

GV II

Inn, now two shops (No.19A & No.21), restaurant (No.23), and
detached part of the Fleece Hotel on the floors above and in
rear wing. C15 or C16, altered and extended to south in C18
(No.23), altered in C19 and C20. Timber frame and brick; the
street front above the shops and restaurant rendered and
boards applied in imitation of timber-framing in early C20;
tiled mansard roof.
PLAN: a two-bay range facing street on the west side of the
carriageway to the hotel courtyard with wing to rear of range
on the south side of the yard facing main part of hotel: No.19
Westgate Street (qv). The rear wing, part of the restaurant,
extends across the backs of No.19A & No.21. No.23, formerly a
separate shop and dwelling, was rebuilt or heightened in the
C19 and converted as part of hotel.
EXTERIOR: front range of three storeys, cellars and attic.
Shop-front to No.19A of c1890 with a decorative upper zone of
small panes in glazing bars above plate glass windows,
entrance doorway recessed to left flanked by curved glass
window return to front. shop-front to No.21 late C19 with
central recessed entry. Front of restaurant, (No.23) is late
C20; the floors above are recessed behind the adjoining
fronts. Three-light casements with glazing bars to both floors
above No.19A; C18 sashes of similar size with glazing bars to
both floors above No.21, and C19 horned sashes, the lower with
two vertical glazing bars, to floors above No.23. A roof
dormer with casements above No.19 & No.23.
INTERIOR: some exposed framing in the floors above No.19 &
No.21, otherwise C20 fittings and linings.
Included for its C15/C16 origins, and as an integral part of
the group centred on the Fleece Hotel (qv).

Listing NGR: SO8309718609

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537985

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)