56 Westgate Street

Gloucester, GL1 2NF

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271934
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:: 56 Westgate Street
Statutory Address:: Gloucester, GL1 2NF

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271934
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Apr-2023
List Entry Name:: 56 Westgate Street
Statutory Address 1:: Gloucester, GL1 2NF

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: Gloucester, GL1 2NF

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 83038 18687

Summary

Reasons for Designation

56 Westgate Street is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* it is a good example of an early-C19 building designed in an elegant neoclassical style that retains a good proportion of external detailing.

Historic interest:

* it is one of a group of listed buildings in Westgate Street which together demonstrate the architectural development and diversity of the area; * it reflects Gloucester's social and commercial development over time.

History

In the mid-C19 the former shop at 56 Westgate Street was occupied by Newman, a tea dealer, foreign fruiterer and wax chandler.

Details

Formerly a shop and dwelling, then a hotel, now a cafe (2021). The structure dates to the early C19, undergoing late C19 and early C20 alterations for its conversion into a hotel. Further alterations were made in the late C20 and early C21.

MATERIALS: brick with stone details.

PLAN: double-depth block with a rear wing to the left.

EXTERIOR: three storeys and a cellar. The principal elevation on the ground floor was refaced in ashlar in the early C20 and has a central entrance doorway and a slightly recessed window to each side, all framed by pilasters and entablature. The upper floors are of red brick with a stone-coped parapet. On the first floor are three, six-over-six sash windows with glazing bars and on the second floor, three, three-over-three sashes, all in openings with a flat-arched head of five raised and stepped stone voussoirs.

INTERIOR: the ground floor was re-fitted in the early C20 with bar rooms, service rooms and stairs to the first floor. On the first floor in the centre of the block, there is a large stairwell, lit by a skylight with an early-C19 staircase to the second floor that has a swept handrail and stick balusters. Other rooms on the upper floors retain original joinery.

Formerly listed as Lamprey Hotel.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 472632
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.