29 AND 31, SOUTHGATE STREET
29 AND 31, SOUTHGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1271754
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 29 AND 31, SOUTHGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 29 AND 31, SOUTHGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1271754
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 29 AND 31, SOUTHGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 29 AND 31, 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:
- 29 AND 31, 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 83096 18451
Details
GLOUCESTER
SO8318SW SOUTHGATE STREET 844-1/12/258 (East side) 23/01/52 Nos.29 AND 31
GV II*
Two town houses, now a pair of shops and dwellings. c1740, with C19 and C20 alterations. Brick with stone features and dressings, slate roof. Double-depth block with wing to rear right overlooking the churchyard of St Mary de Crypt (qv); former service range, Greyfriars Inn (qv), attached to rear of No.31. EXTERIOR: three storeys and cellars; a single, unified, five-bay front, on the ground floor two C20 shop-fronts inserted on each side of a central pair of entrance doorways, originally a plinth of three courses of raised and chamfered ashlar, and above, at the outer corners of the ground floor, raised and chamfered quoins, a stone band at first-floor level, and a sill band at first-floor window level. In C20 the former modillion crowning cornice replaced by a brick parapet; in the centre a pair of arched doorways with fanlights, each with radiating glazing bars, in a rusticated stone surround and framed to each side by pair of three-quarter Ionic columns supporting entablature with pulvinated frieze and pediment. On the first floor above the doorway a Venetian window with a Gibbs surround and sashes with glazing bars, and in bays to each side sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings with moulded stone, eared architraves with raised-and-stepped triple key stones in the lintels; on the second floor five sashes with glazing bars (3x4) panes in openings with moulded stone, eared and shouldered architraves. INTERIOR: in No.31 all original internal walls removed to form shop but plan indicated by the original moulded cornices to the ceilings of the former rooms; to rear right the stairwell; mid-C18 timber open well staircase with open string, carved tread-end brackets, column newels, column-on-vase balusters, curtail step, ramped handrail and panelled dado. No.29 not inspected. (BOE: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean: London: 1976-: 250).
Listing NGR: SO8309618451
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472470
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 250
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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