Shire Hall
SHIRE HALL, WESTGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245084
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Shire Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SHIRE HALL, WESTGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245084
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Shire Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHIRE HALL, WESTGATE 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.
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:
- SHIRE HALL, WESTGATE STREET
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 82979 18682
Details
GLOUCESTER
SO8218NE WESTGATE STREET 844-1/7/429 (South side) 23/01/52 Shire Hall
GV II
Shire hall portico and flanking wings. The original building, of which the portico remains, opened 1816. By Sir Robert Smirke for the County Magistrates. Substantial extensions to either side of entrance front, 1909-11, by MH Medland for Gloucestershire County Council. The entrance portico and the flanking wings retained when building was otherwise demolished and rebuilt with major additions, 1960-1970. Ashlar, composite roof. The original symmetrical facade, comprising portico between slightly projecting wings, is set back from street between later, flanking wings; the wider flanking wing on the east side returns along the west side of Berkeley Street. EXTERIOR: giant Ionic portico of three bays flanked by two-storey, single-bay wings is approached by two shallow flights of stone steps in forecourt flanked by later wings, above the portico the crowning entablature is slightly recessed between parapets with moulded copings above the single bay wings; on the front of each wing a central doorway and on the first floor a sash. The later projecting wings, of three storeys and basement, have canted angles at the outer corners on the sides towards the forecourt, plain ashlar plinths at basement level, raised bands at ground-floor sill level with banded rustication above capped by raised bands at first-floor sill level; the first and second floors faced with plain ashlar, crowning entablatures with parapets with open balustrade panels; all the sashes with glazing bars; a bronze sconce on each side of the portico. INTERIOR: mostly rebuilt 1960 to 1970. The Assize Courts at rear, formerly listed as part of Shire Hall, now listed as Crown Courts, Bearland (qv). (BOE: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean: London: 1976-: 239; VCH: The City of Gloucester: Oxford: 1988-: 249).
Listing NGR: SO8297918682
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472683
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Victoria History of the City of Gloucester, (1988), 249
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 239
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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