Cider House to E of Corner of Folk Museum Courtyard England, UK

Listed Building Description

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GLOUCESTER

SO8218NE WESTGATE STREET 844-1/7/418 (South side (off)) Cider House to east corner of Folk Museum Courtyard

GV II

Includes: No.2 QUAY STREET. Workshop and warehouse incorporating walls of a C18 coach house, later slaughter house, now museum annexe. c1830. For Robert Lovesey, timber merchant and wheelwright. From mid C19 to 1963 used as a slaughter house with south end converted to house as No.2 Quay Street; repaired as annexe to Folk Museum for Gloucester City Council 1969-79 to house cider mills. Brick, hipped roof retiled 1979. A long single depth range aligned north to south on east side of the Folk Museum Courtyard. EXTERIOR: two storeys. Brick dentil eaves cornice; on the west side at the north end a buttress added 1979, to right on west side irregular openings including the entrance doorway and on the first floor a loft doorway, and irregular fenestration. INTERIOR: open timber roof in four bays with collar trusses and single purlins; a beam fitted in C19 with iron pulleys to raise meat carcasses. (Cox N: Gloucester Folk Museum, A Guide to the Buildings: Gloucester: 1987-: 28).

Listing NGR: SO8285718712