The Whitesmiths Arms
THE WHITESMITHS ARMS, 81, SOUTHGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271772
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- The Whitesmiths Arms
- Statutory Address:
- THE WHITESMITHS ARMS, 81, SOUTHGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271772
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- The Whitesmiths Arms
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WHITESMITHS ARMS, 81, 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:
- THE WHITESMITHS ARMS, 81, 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 82881 18136
Details
GLOUCESTER
SO8218SE SOUTHGATE STREET 844-1/11/276 (East side) No.81 The Whitesmiths Arms
GV II
House, now public house. C18 with C19 alterations but probably encapsulating parts of an earlier building. Brick, partly rendered in pebble dash, slate roof with a single hipped dormer, brick stacks. Single depth end-gabled parallel block with stack to left gable and rear wing to left in Albion Street. EXTERIOR: two storeys, attic and cellar; symmetrical front remodelled c1870; central entrance doorway with rectangular fanlight and to either side a recess enclosing a pair of horned sashes; the doorway and both recesses framed by plain pilasters supporting a continuous architrave with a cornice moulding; on the first floor at each end a sash with a single vertical glazing bar in openings with projecting stone sills and in the centre above the doorway an inn sign hanging from a metal bracket; in the roof dormer a pair of casements with glazing bars. The north wall of the rear wing in Albion Street has irregular fenestration including, on the ground floor, a C18 sash with glazing bars. INTERIOR: some indications of residual timber-framing. Prominently sited to east of The Docks (qv).
Listing NGR: SO8288118136
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472502
- 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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