Folk Museum (Bishop Hoopers Lodging) England, UK

Description

Merchant's house. c1500, probably for a master clothier; C17 addition at rear heightened in C18; other minor alterations and additions of various dates; 1933 restored and converted for use as folk museum for Gloucester City Council. Timber frame with some original panels of oak staves woven with laths and daubed with red clay and straw; some rendering to front and rear; brick addition at rear; two brick stacks, plain tile roof to front range, pantile roofs at rear.

Listed Building Description

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GLOUCESTER

SO8218NE WESTGATE STREET 844-1/7/419 (South side) 23/01/52 Nos.99 AND 101 Folk Museum, (Bishop Hooper's Lodging) (Formerly Listed as: WESTGATE STREET (South side) Nos.99 AND 101 Bishop Hooper's House)

GV II*

Merchant's house. c1500, probably for a master clothier; C17 addition at rear heightened in C18; other minor alterations and additions of various dates; 1933 restored and converted for use as folk museum for Gloucester City Council. Timber frame with some original panels of oak staves woven with laths and daubed with red clay and straw; some rendering to front and rear; brick addition at rear; two brick stacks, plain tile roof to front range, pantile roofs at rear. PLAN: the house comprised the front range of three framed and originally cross-gabled bays and a rear wing of four framed bays, with a through passage under the front range from the street to an alley on the east side of the wing; a courtyard on the west side of the wing; two shops in the front range were originally separated by a passage leading from the street to the courtyard; in the front range three rooms on each upper floor, in the rear wing a large and a small room on each floor separated by a chimney-stack with a fire-place to each of the rooms; within the rear wing at its junction with the front range, a C20 oak staircase replacing the smaller original staircase; in C17 the courtyard area at rear of the front range infilled by a range on the west side of the wing and heightened in C18. EXTERIOR: three storeys and attics, a stone walled cellar below each of the original former shops; on the front the first and second floors are jettied, the ground floor is divided into four bays and a narrow entrance into the passage on the east side by storey posts; five of the six posts are original, the fifth post from the east is a C20 insertion and replaces a post further east which formed one side of the doorway to the passage between the former shops; the bays infilled in C20 with timber-framed windows with Tudor-arched heads and glazing bars with a doorway incorporated into the window in the third bay from the east; the fronts of the

original posts retain evidence of slender attached shafts with chamfered bases and moulded caps with decorative cresting carved out of the solid; from the tops of the caps curved knee braces support the first floor jetty; the posts to either side of the passage to the alley on the east side are carved with stopped jamb mouldings, inserted between them a C20 door frame with turned balusters in a panel above timber panelled doors. The upper floors of three framed bays with intermediate rails and close studding; on the first-floor in the east and the central bays an oriel window of three-light casements with single side-light casements; originally part of a continuous run of casements across the front of the house; the moulded bressumer to the first floor jetty and the moulded intermediate rail break forward across the fronts of the oriels each of which has moulded corner posts and moulded cornices below the second-floor jetty; the former casement openings to either side of the oriels are now infilled; all the casements have rectangular leadlight glazing; the wider west bay is rendered between the storey posts and has two inserted C18 sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes); between the sashes a central rectangular stucco panel with a moulded frame and inscribed "BISHOP HOOPER'S LODGING". On the second floor a deep moulded bressumer to the jetty; close studding between the storey posts, the two secondary posts in the wider west bay, and the intermediate rails; on the faces of the storey posts evidence of a slender shafts under knee brackets which supported the former jettied attic cross gables and replaced in C18 by a moulded cornice; in both the east and the central bays and to each side of the west bay a small C18 sash with glazing bars (3x2 panes). On the east side beyond the pa