Gloucester Services Club

52 AND 54, WESTGATE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1271931
Date first listed:
15-Dec-1998
List Entry Name:
Gloucester Services Club
Statutory Address:
52 AND 54, WESTGATE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1271931
Date first listed:
15-Dec-1998
List Entry Name:
Gloucester Services Club
Statutory Address 1:
52 AND 54, WESTGATE STREET
Statutory Address 2:
GLOUCESTER SERVICES CLUB, COLLEGE STREET

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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.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
52 AND 54, WESTGATE STREET
Statutory Address:
GLOUCESTER SERVICES CLUB, COLLEGE 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 83044 18681

Details

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW WESTGATE STREET 844-1/8/398 (North side) Nos.52 AND 54

GV II

Includes: Gloucester Services Club COLLEGE STREET. Block of two shops and former dwellings. c1870, C20 alterations. Rear part of No.52 now a club; upper floors of No.54 part of Lamprey Hotel No.56 Westgate Street (qv). Ashlar facing on brick, cast-iron shop-front, slate roof. Double-depth block. EXTERIOR: three storeys and cellars; the front a unified facade in an Italianate style; on the ground floor two shop-fronts framed by rusticated strip pilasters capped by carved brackets supporting blocks at the ends of fascias above the shop-fronts, on the face of each block a finely sculpted head in relief within a roundel, the fascias capped by string courses between the blocks; No.52 to right has original, cast- iron, arcaded shop window with a central recessed entry to the doorway, moulded shafts with moulded capitals and bases attached to the slender piers, and arches with roundels in the spandrels; No.54 to left has mid C20 shop window; at first-floor level a moulded cornice on consoles, and similar crowning cornice on pairs of brackets with panelled parapet above; on the first floor two plain, horned sashes to each unit in openings framed with moulded architraves on each side and a plain segmental-arched head, with floating cornice supported on heavy console end-brackets and projecting sill on small end-brackets; on the second floor to each unit two similar sashes each in an opening with a segmental arched head, and moulded architrave with a carved key stone in the arch. INTERIOR: not inspected. Of principal interest for the prominent facade in a Italianate style, characteristic of mid C19 commercial architecture and also distinguished by a good surviving shop-front to No.52.



Listing NGR: SO8304418681

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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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