60 and 62 Westgate Street

60 and 62 Westgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 2NZ

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Overview

Commercial with residential above. Early C19 with number 60 largely rebuilt in 1947, early-C21 alterations. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245226
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:: 60 and 62 Westgate Street
Statutory Address:: 60 and 62 Westgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 2NZ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245226
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 05-Apr-2023
List Entry Name:: 60 and 62 Westgate Street
Statutory Address 1:: 60 and 62 Westgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 2NZ

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 60 and 62 Westgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 2NZ

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 83015 18703

Summary

Commercial with residential above. Early C19 with number 60 largely rebuilt in 1947, early-C21 alterations.

Reasons for Designation

60 and 62 Westgate Street, Gloucester are listed for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* the well-proportioned brick elevations to Westgate Street and College Street are a handsome corner presence; * the 1947 rebuild is of high quality and does not detract from the earlier parts of the building;

Historic interest:

* as an example of the development of Westgate Street in the C19;

Group value:

* with 64 Westgate Street and 3 College Street, which are Grade II-listed, and the architecture of which it reflects.

History

In the late C14 Gloucester’s trade industry – principally in corn and wine – enriched a small but influential group of merchants who monopolised official positions of the city. By the early C17 merchants were displaying their prosperity in new or enlarged houses located within the central parishes. Their proximity to the focus of communal life and centre of the borough administration was an added benefit. A few notable examples of these merchant’s houses survive along Westgate Street as testaments to the area’s trading activity and the prominence of these wealthy officeholders throughout the late medieval and early modern periods.

Details

Commercial with residential above. Early C19 with number 60 largely rebuilt in 1947, early-C21 alterations.

MATERIALS: red brick, slate roof, brick chimney stacks, timber sash windows.

PLAN: a double-depth block with canted angle at the street corner.

EXTERIOR: the building is three storeys high, with a cellar and attic. It has a slate two-span roof with dormer windows, partly installed during the post-war renovations when the corner to College Street was largely rebuilt, and two early-C19 brick stacks. An early-C21 glazed shopfront with timber panels and recessed entrance wraps around the ground floor elevations to Westgate Street and College Street. Above, there are pilaster strips at the corners of the canted angle, between the second and third bays to the left on the Westgate Street elevation, and terminating the College Street elevation, all rising to full height, including to the parapet which comprises a stone band and continues around the full elevation. On each of the upper floors, there are three sash windows to Westgate Street, one sash on the canted angle, and one to College Street; all comprise six-over-six panes with glazing bars.

INTERIOR: understood to be altered on the ground floor, but may contain features including an early-C19 staircase elsewhere.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 472638
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.