International Stores

INTERNATIONAL STORES, 1, BROAD STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1078677
Date first listed:
18-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:
International Stores
Statutory Address:
INTERNATIONAL STORES, 1, BROAD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1078677
Date first listed:
18-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:
International Stores
Statutory Address 1:
INTERNATIONAL STORES, 1, BROAD STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
INTERNATIONAL STORES, 1, BROAD STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:
Newent
National Grid Reference:
SO7224925862

Details

SO 7225-7325
13/72

NEWENT
BROAD STREET
(north side)
No 1 (International Stores)

GV
II*

Shop: C15, late C17 or early C18, mid C19; Smooth render to Broad
Street, painted brick gable to left: some brick-nogged timber-
framing to rear, and English-bond brickwork: slate, tiled and flat
roofs. Square block with internal courtyard: 2 storey, some lofts.
To Broad Street, 3 windows wide- with plain rendered projecting
gable left, right return moulded plinth, single blocked window,
moulded sill with end consoles, flat, eared surround to window,
projecting moulded head on consoles. Front, plinth, paired similar
window; mid C20 shop front on right. Above, gable painted
brickwork, right return rendered: plain string course. Two-pane
sash window, projecting moulded sill on brackets, plain eared
raised surround, with plain head with cambered top; main front
paired similar windows each end, single in centre. Above parapet
gable with moulded coping, apex finial, 4-pane wooden window,
pointed head, sill as first floor windows: roof behind slated. To
right plain parapet coping, flat roof behind. Left return front
mid C20 brickwork where exposed, rear first floor part close
studded timber, brick nogged: 3 light mullion and transom wooden
window, to first floor, with bressumer and wallplate exposed.
Ground floor largely covered by housing to conveyer belt. Left
gable timber-framed (see interior). Beyond early C18 brick wing,
set back width of gable, lean-to in front: tiled. Ground floor
obscured by single-storey wing, not of special interest. Beyond
boarded door in heavy frame. Left gable 2-light mullion and
transom window first floor, 3-light mullion to loft. Brick
chimney on side.
Interior: Slate-roofed gabled wing: ground floor heavy ceiling
beams, central off surviving main posts, with curved brace to one,
First floor subdivided by timber-framed wall: other 3 walls rear
room close-studded framing: double chamfer visible to one wall post
in cross wall. In wing behind a C17 door, 3 boards with moulding
at joints. Loft: 4 bay roof, 1 full, 2 half trusses, arch-braced
collar, 'V' struts above shaped to give quatrefoil in top, bottom
section ogee. Two pairs flat purlins, square ridge, 3 tiers wind
braces in each bay, shaped to give trefoil where they meet. Gables
tie-beam and collar, heavy braces to wall posts below on rear, some
studs survive at front: struts to collar, plain 'V' struts above.
Upper floor of slated wing originally open to roof, loft formed
probably C17. A very important medieval survival.

Listing NGR: SO7224925862

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
125604
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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