Whitefriars Museum
WHITEFRIARS MUSEUM, GULSON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1076648
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Whitefriars Museum
- Statutory Address:
- WHITEFRIARS MUSEUM, GULSON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1076648
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Whitefriars Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITEFRIARS MUSEUM, GULSON ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WHITEFRIARS MUSEUM, GULSON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Coventry (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3400578680
Details
5105
SP 3378 NE 1/29
SP 3478 NW 8/29
GULSON ROAD
Whitefriars Museum
(Formerly listed as Coventry Union Workhouse (Salvation Army Hostel))
5.2.55
I
Circa 1342, date of foundation of Carmelite Priory, dissolved 1538. Private dwelling house of Hales family to 1717. Converted to workhouse for the poor 1804.
Range on east side of former cloister, 46 metres long. Ashlar, two storeys, tiled roof. Buttresses with offsets. Ground floor pointed arched windows to former cloister with ribbed cross vaults. First floor former friars' dormitory has square headed mullioned lattice casement windows, canted oriel bay window.
Bombed 1940, restored 1968-69.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 October 2019.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 218488
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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