Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8218NE THE QUAY
844-1/7/369 (East side)
23/01/52 Old Custom House

GV II

Custom House from c1700 until 1800, subsequently used for
various purposes, now offices. Early C18 with a late C18
addition to the front built by agreement with the City Council
in order to increase the office accommodation for the customs
officers; an addition at rear originally a dwelling. Ashlar,
rendered brick, slate roof. A narrow rectangular block; the
upper floors of the addition to the front are supported on a
colonnade facing the quay; the ground floor originally a large
store room, offices on the upper floors.
EXTERIOR: three storeys; on the ground floor the colonnade
with two slender cast-iron columns between ashlar corner piers
and at each return end an archway with impost blocks, cornice
at first-floor level; the extension above the colonnade two
bays in width and one-bay deep is framed by shallow, giant
pilasters, slightly inset at the corners, and with moulded
bases and capitals; crowning entablature with panelled parapet
with moulded coping; on the front on each upper floor two
sashes and on each side on the first floor a sash and and on
the second floor an infilled window; all the sashes with
glazing bars (3x4 panes) in similar openings with moulded
sills; set centrally on the front between the first and second
floors a weathered stone panel carved with the royal arms.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: in 1724 the Corporation agreed to give land, either
for an extension or a new building.

Listing NGR: SO8272418764

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538011

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)