4, LONGSMITH STREET

4, LONGSMITH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1245725
Date first listed:
23-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:
4, LONGSMITH STREET
Statutory Address:
4, LONGSMITH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1245725
Date first listed:
23-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:
4, LONGSMITH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
4, LONGSMITH 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
4, LONGSMITH 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 83077 18493

Details

GLOUCESTER

SO8418NW LONGSMITH STREET 844-1/12/193 (North side) 23/01/52 No.4

II

Shop and dwelling, now shop and restaurant. Late C16 with C19 and C20 alterations. Timber frame with rendered panels, slate roof, brick stack. A front gable range, at right angles to street and four bays deep. EXTERIOR: two storeys, attic and cellar; the gable-end front with jetties at first and second-floor levels supported by knee brackets at the outer corners of the front; on the ground floor a C20 shop-front with entrance doorway to right; on the first floor exposed timber-framing, with intermediate rail and with studs framing a large panels below each sill of two similar C19 casements with central, horizontal, glazing bars, and a narrow panel below and above the intermediate rail in the centre between the casements, and at each end; on the attic floor a full width panel between the bressumer and the tie beam in the gable, panels in the gable between the beam and the collar tie framing a central C20 two-light window, and panels above the tie beam. The framing in the ends of the side walls has been exposed by the recession of the modern street alignment. INTERIOR: on the ground floor some exposed framing including a diagonal brace in the east side wall and in the rear wall; on the first floor a single room with step-stopped, chamfered bridging beams, the end of one beam supported by a surviving knee brace; in the attic angle-braced trusses with collar ties and purlins; stone walled cellar with chamfered bridging beams.





Listing NGR: SO8307718493

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
472321
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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