Weighbridge House

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE SOUTHGATE STREET 844-1/11/300 (East side) 12/03/73 Weighbridge House

II

Former office and store for the former weighbridge at the east gate entry to the Gloucester Docks. 1849. Brick stuccoed on front and sides; felt roof, originally slate; central brick stack at rear. A small rectangular building placed diagonally on the north-west corner of the junction of Southgate Street and the entry to the docks. EXTERIOR: single storey; on the front three unequal bays with pilasters capped by abaci supporting a plain architrave, cornice and pediment; the end walls have the same entablature and similar pediments. On the front a central entrance doorway, the door with two lower panels and an upper glazed panel; in the right-hand bay a sash with glazing bars (4x4 panes) in an opening with a projecting stone sill. INTERIOR: not inspected. Designed in the same plain classical style as the lock keepers' cottages on the Gloucester-Sharpness Canal.









Listing NGR: SO8286618173

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0696 IOE Records taken by Jack Farley; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Jack Farley. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project