16 AND 18, SOUTHGATE STREET
16 AND 18, SOUTHGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271750
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 18, SOUTHGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 16 AND 18, SOUTHGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271750
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 18, SOUTHGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16 AND 18, SOUTHGATE 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:
- 16 AND 18, SOUTHGATE 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 83112 18514
Details
GLOUCESTER
SO8318NW SOUTHGATE STREET 844-1/8/254 (West side) 12/03/73 Nos.16 AND 18
GV II
Pair of shops with offices or dwellings, now bank. c1835, with C20 alterations and additions. Brick, the street front faced in ashlar, slate roof. A large double-depth block with later extensions at rear and extensive internal alterations. EXTERIOR: four storeys and cellar; the front to Southgate Street has steel-framed glazed screen to banking chamber on the ground floor inserted c1965 to replace an ashlar front to the chamber inserted c1920 when the former shops were converted to a bank. On the upper floors the ashlar front of four bays is original with a moulded string at first-floor window sill level, and a band at second-floor window sill level running between grooved quoin strips at the angles of the block, the strips rising to a bold frieze and modillion cornice with dentils above the second storey; the attic storey above the cornice has strips at the angles, a shallow crowning cornice and parapet; on the first and on the second floors sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings with moulded architraves; cornices above the first-floor windows supported on consoles, in the attic storey plain window openings each with a pair of plain casements. Side elevation to Cross Keys Lane of brick with stone dressings in three bays of unequal spacing with string cornices and cornices at the same levels as those on the front; early C20 alterations to windows on the ground floor; windows in the upper floors of the right hand bay are blocked, otherwise sashes with glazing bars in openings with flat arches of raised-and-stepped voussoirs, a blocked window opening to former stair well with round arched head of raised stone voussoirs. INTERIOR: mostly altered and refitted; on the first floor behind the two bays to right on the front elevation, a room retains its decorative plaster cornice with a band of paterae, egg-and-dart and acanthus mouldings, a moulded central roundel on the ceiling; panelled window shutters and picture rail. Cellars not accessible for inspection.
Listing NGR: SO8311218514
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472466
- 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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