58, WESTGATE STREET, 2-8, COLLEGE STREET

2-8, COLLEGE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271938
Date first listed:: 15-Dec-1998
List Entry Name:: 58, WESTGATE STREET, 2-8, COLLEGE STREET
Statutory Address:: 2-8, COLLEGE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271938
Date first listed:: 15-Dec-1998
List Entry Name:: 58, WESTGATE STREET, 2-8, COLLEGE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 2-8, COLLEGE STREET
Statutory Address 2:: 58, WESTGATE STREET

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

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 2-8, COLLEGE STREET
Statutory Address:: 58, WESTGATE 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 83038 18703

Details

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW WESTGATE STREET 844-1/8/403 (North side) No.58

GV II

Includes: Nos.2-8 COLLEGE STREET. Terrace of five shops and offices. 1890. By FW Waller Red brick in English bond with red terracotta and stone details, timber-framing; tiled roofs, gables and gabled dormers with scalloped and pierced timber barge boards, tall brick stacks. Domestic Revival Style. PLAN: long, single depth range in which No.58 Westgate Street, at the south end of the terrace, is designed to accentuate the importance of the approach to the cathedral via College Street; shops on the ground floor and offices above; at the north end of the range a carriage way provides access to rear of shops. EXTERIOR: No.58 Westgate Street of three brick storeys and a jettied, timber-framed attic story with a gable on each outer face and, above the quadrant corner, a polygonal fleche with decorative wrought-iron finial; to left of a projecting chimney-stack the front of No.2 College Street is of two brick storeys with a jettied, timber-framed third storey, and attic with two gabled dormers; Nos 4, 6 & 8 have identical fronts of two brick storeys and jettied timber-framed attic storey, the jetties supported on corbels. No.58 Westgate Street on the ground floor in the canted angle at the street corner has shop doorway with semicircular arched fanlight, and, on each side of the corner, a shop window with a three-light and upper transom timber frame containing leaded glazing in the upper lights; Nos 2-8 College Street on the ground floor each have a doorway with segmental arched fanlight, and to left of each doorway a shop window similar to No.58 Westgate Street; over the shops a continuous, tiled hood supported on timber brackets, and at first-floor level a stone string course; No.58 Westgate Street at first floor-level has a quadrant corner embellished with a cartouche in an elaborately moulded panel contained within an ogee-arched frame, all in moulded terracotta; on the first floor of No.58 Westgate Street on the south front a projecting, stone-framed five-light mullion and upper transom casement window, on the west side a similar four-light window, and on the first floor of 2 to 8 College Street above each shop window a similar three-light window to No.2 and a five-light window to each of the other units; above the doorway to No.2 a polygonal timber base for a proposed

projecting balcony on the second floor is supported by brackets from a moulded corbel, on each side of the base a recessed single light casement with upper transoms, above each doorway in each of the other shops a similar window; on the second floor of No.58 Westgate Street in the lower zone timber-framing with arched panels infilled with plaster decorated with roses or fleur-de-lys in relief, in the south gable a canted oriel window of five arched lights and under the west gable a similar four-light window; on the second floor of Nos 2 to 8 College Street a three-light canted oriel to No.2, and a rectangular five-light oriel with dormer gable above each of the other units, all the oriels supported on timber brackets. At the south end the two storey entrance to yard at rear of range with carriageway and gabled first floor with timber-framed front. On a metal commemorative plaque attached to the west front on the right hand side of the doorway to No.2 College Street the inscription: "In 1890 the street was widened from 10' 9", the buildings on the eastern side were afterwards erected by the Gloucester Cathedral Approaches Co Ltd involving a sacrifice of 10,000. FW Waller Archt". INTERIOR: not inspected. A competent design in the Domestic Revival Manner, which makes a significant contribution to the streetscape in this area. Waller exhibited a perspective drawing of these buildings in the 1894 Royal Academy Exhibition. (BOE: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean: London: 1976-: 246).

Listing NGR: SO8303818703

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Sources

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Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)

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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.