Pin Factory Annexe of Folk Museum England, UK

Description

Barn, later factory, now museum annexe. Mid C16, partly rewalled in C17 and remodelled in late C18 for use as pin factory; restored as workshop for Folk Museum by Gloucester City Council after 1935. Timber frame, retaining some infill panels of daubed staves and laths, otherwise C17 and C18 brick, plain tile gable-end roof, brick stack.

Listed Building Description

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GLOUCESTER

SO8218NE WESTGATE STREET 844-1/7/420 (South side (off)) Pin Factory Annexe of Folk Museum

GV II

Barn, later factory, now museum annexe. Mid C16, partly rewalled in C17 and remodelled in late C18 for use as pin factory; restored as workshop for Folk Museum by Gloucester City Council after 1935. Timber frame, retaining some infill panels of daubed staves and laths, otherwise C17 and C18 brick, plain tile gable-end roof, brick stack. A range of four bays at rear of No.97 Westgate Street (not included), and entered from passage on east side of Folk Museum, 99-101 Westgate Street (qv). EXTERIOR: three storeys; the original C16 two-storey barn survives as the lower part of the north gable wall, the timber-framing in square panels set on a brick dwarf wall and capped by the tie beam of the original gable; the side walls of the barn largely rebuilt in brick in C17; in late C18 the C16 roof removed and a third storey added in brick; on west side on all floors in each bay a three-light horizontal sliding sash with glazing bars; the large stack built into the south-east corner probably for a factory forge. INTERIOR: on the ground floor red sandstone paving slabs; the first floor bridging beams are supported with curved struts; over the second floor an open timber roof with king post trusses. (Cox N: Gloucester Folk Museum, A Guide to the Buildings: Gloucester: 1987-: 27).

Listing NGR: SO8287118746