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GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE BLACKFRIARS 844-1/11/14 (South side) 23/01/52 North End of West Range, Blackfriars (Formerly Listed as: LADYBELLEGATE STREET Part of No.11 (occupied by Gloucester Printers Ltd) and Nos 13 to 17 (odd))

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Includes: North End of West Range, Blackfriars LADYBELLEGATE STREET. Part of Dominican friary (Blackfriars), the north end of the west claustral range converted and extended as a house. Mid C13, remodelled 1540-45 as part of house or as cloth manufactory for Sir Thomas Bell; late C18 alterations and additions; now in the care of English Heritage. Stone rubble with dressed stone features, ashlar, brick, slate roof. PLAN: north end of C13 range divided from the main part of the range (the refectory) by C13 cross wall; a small closet wing added on the west side in late C18 and a gabled wing on the east side with a further cross wing projecting north. EXTERIOR: two storeys and cellar; the upper storey now opened into the former attic. The north gable-end of the range remodelled as main front of the house with ashlar facing and coped gable; the ground floor, partly obscured by a temporary building to the north, has a three-light, stone-framed mullion window to right; on the first floor a symmetrical pair of stone-framed mullion windows of two lights with moulded architraves; a similar two-light window to first floor of wing to right; each light contains a late C18 sash with glazing bars (3x4 panes); in the gable a pointed arched window with hoodmould contains a late C18 sash with intersecting glazing bars in the head. INTERIOR: on the ground floor exposed C13 and C16 masonry and a C19 chimney-piece with a stone surround; exposed above the first floor a remarkable surviving C13 open roof with close-set timber scissor trusses within former attic; cellar formed in late C18. Formerly listed as No.11 Ladybellegate Street. Now part of Ancient Monument which includes Blackfriars Church (qv), in the care of English Heritage.



Listing NGR: SO8294618435

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)