Regiments of Gloucestershire Museum
REGIMENTS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE MUSEUM, 31, COMMERCIAL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271653
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Regiments of Gloucestershire Museum
- Statutory Address:
- REGIMENTS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE MUSEUM, 31, COMMERCIAL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271653
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Regiments of Gloucestershire Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- REGIMENTS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE MUSEUM, 31, COMMERCIAL ROAD
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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:
- REGIMENTS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE MUSEUM, 31, COMMERCIAL ROAD
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 82875 18393
Details
GLOUCESTER
SO8218SE COMMERCIAL ROAD 844-1/11/99 (South side) 12/03/73 No.31 Regiments of Gloucestershire Museum (Formerly Listed as: COMMERCIAL ROAD (South side) Custom House)
GV II
HM Custom and Excise Office, now museum. Completed 1845, by Sydney Smirke for the Customs Commissioners. Minor alterations c1985 for conversion as the Regiments of Gloucestershire Museum. Ashlar to front and sides, brick at rear, slate roof, brick stack. Symmetrical double-depth block; the C20 entrance to museum at rear is approached from the Docks. EXTERIOR: two storeys and basement. Symmetrical front to Commercial Road; offset plinth, raised bands at first floor and first-floor sill levels, crowning cornice and a coped parapet; at the outer corners between the plinth and the first-floor band, and between the first-floor sill band and the crowning cornice, are long raised and chamfered quoins. On the ground floor in the centre a porch of slight projection, the open front framed by pilasters and entablature with parapet above; flanking the porch on either side a sash with a further sash widely spaced to left and right in plain openings with projecting stone sills. On the first floor the same pattern of openings with three closely spaced sashes in the centre and a architraves and floating cornices. All the sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes). Set above the centre of the parapet the royal arms carved in stone. Elevation at each end has three sashes on each floor with details are similar to the front. Rear elevation facing the Docks of brick, with late C20 glazed extension. INTERIOR: not inspected HISTORY: built in order to handle the great expansion of foreign trade passing through Gloucester Docks in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Listing NGR: SO8287518393
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472189
- 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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