Cider House in rear courtyard of The Folk of Gloucester
Cider House (2 Quay Street) in rear courtyard, The Folk of Gloucester, 99-103 Westgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 2PG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245072
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Cider House in rear courtyard of The Folk of Gloucester
- Statutory Address:
- Cider House (2 Quay Street) in rear courtyard, The Folk of Gloucester, 99-103 Westgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 2PG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245072
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1998
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Apr-2023
- List Entry Name:
- Cider House in rear courtyard of The Folk of Gloucester
- Statutory Address 1:
- Cider House (2 Quay Street) in rear courtyard, The Folk of Gloucester, 99-103 Westgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 2PG
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:
- Cider House (2 Quay Street) in rear courtyard, The Folk of Gloucester, 99-103 Westgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 2PG
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Gloucester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 82857 18712
Summary
A former workshop and warehouse that incorporates the walls of a C18 coach house, later a slaughterhouse, and now (2021) a museum annexe. It dates to around 1830 with alterations in the mid-C20 and early C21.
Reasons for Designation
The Cider House to the rear of The Folk of Gloucester is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* its architecture is mainly utilitarian, but the alterations to the building illustrate its changing and complex history.
Historic interest:
* as an interesting example of a C18 coach house that was remodelled for warehouse use in the early C19 and from the mid-C19 as a slaughterhouse.
History
The building is depicted on an estate map of 1780 and was owned by Robert Lovesey, a timber merchant and wheelwright, from 1825. From the mid-C19 to 1963 it was used as a slaughterhouse, and its south end was converted to a house, number 2 Quay Street. In 1969 the building was acquired by Gloucester Folk Museum, and following its sale to Gloucester Historic Buildings Ltd in 2021 is now a part of the Folk of Gloucester. It was restored and houses a horse-driven cider mill and press. In 2009, it underwent further alteration and extension, with the installation of toilets on the ground floor, a replica ‘Victorian Classroom’ on the first floor and a linked two-storey extension to the west.
Details
A former workshop and warehouse that incorporates the walls of a C18 coach house, later a slaughterhouse, and now (2021) a community heritage centre. It dates to around 1830 with alterations in the mid-C20 and early C21.
MATERIALS: constructed of brick with a hipped roof that was retiled in 1979. The Quay Street elevation is rendered.
PLAN: a long, single-depth range aligned north to south, situated at the south-east corner of the museum's rear courtyard.
EXTERIOR: two storeys with a tall ground floor. It has a brick dentil eaves cornice on the west side, and at the north end, there is a buttress that was added in 1979. To the right on the west side are irregular openings, and on the first floor is a loft doorway. The north elevation has a single window to first floor. The Quay Street elevation (south) is gabled, with a stone coping, a timber-framed, eight-over-eight sash window to the ground floor above a blind opening and a 12-pane timber-framed window to the first floor.
INTERIOR: the building has an open timber roof in four bays with collar trusses and single purlins. There is also a beam that was fitted in the C19 with iron pulleys to raise meat carcasses when the building was a slaughterhouse.
Formerly listed as: Cider House to east of corner of Folk Museum Courtyard
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472652
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cox, N, "Gloucester Folk Museum": A guide to the Buildings, (1998), 28
Websites
The Folk of Gloucester, accessed 21 November 2022 from https://thefolkofgloucester.co.uk/
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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