Folk Museum Gloucester, England

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GLOUCESTER

SO8218NE WESTGATE STREET 844-1/7/422 (South side) 23/01/52 No.103 Folk Museum (Formerly Listed as: WESTGATE STREET (South side) No.103)

GV II*

Town house, later shop, now museum. c1645, for Damaris Deighton, daughter of a surgeon, John Deighton, C18 and C19 alterations and additions; from 1950 to 1978 the Museum of the Gloucestershire Regiment; restored 1968-72 for Gloucester City Council, now forms part of Folk Museum. Brick, stone, timber frame, slate roof with end-gables and cross-gabled dormers, two end-gable brick stacks. A lateral range of two bays with central entry, and parallel gable-ended ranges at right angles to street. EXTERIOR: three storeys, cellar and attic; on the ground and first floors the front wall of the range of brick, the rear wall of stone with brick above, the third floor timber-framed with jetties and two cross gables to front and rear. Symmetrical front, on the ground floor in the centre a central doorway in a finely moulded timber frame with original, iron studded, oak plank door; to right a early C19 shop-front, the window and doorway to right framed with timber pilasters and corniced fascia, and C20 glazing bars inserted; to left a similar C20 window inserted; on the first floor four timber-framed casements each of two lights with upper transoms and leaded rectangular glazing, under the second floor jetty a knee bracket at each end and in the centre; on the second floor timber-framing in two bays (concealed by rendering prior to 1968) with close studding, intermediate rail and tension braces to the central storey post, in each bay a canted, timber-framed, oriel casement window supported on two shaped brackets, each casement of four-lights with upper transom and leaded rectangular glazing; each gable has timber studs in the apex and a fixed sash with leaded glazing, both gables with plain barge boards and apex finials. INTERIOR: on the ground floor the former central cross passage is indicated by morticed beams, at the east end a fireplace with Tudor-arched and moulded stone surround, the similar fireplace at west end removed in C19, on each of the upper floors similar fireplaces at each end; a newel stair flanking

the south side of each chimney-stack, in brick to the cellar and with oak newel post, oak steps, and curved and moulded oak hand rail to the upper floors and attic; on the second floor the exposed tie beam to the central roof truss is supported on curved, moulded brackets at either end; in the attic the roof framing comprises the central truss with queen struts and collar tie at the apex, purlins tennoned into the sides of the principal rafters and rafters tennoned into the purlins and a square ridge piece. The timber-framing on the second floor and in the cross gables was originally concealed by render with scribed masonry joints; the render removed in 1993. (Cox N: Gloucester Folk Museum, A Guide to the Buildings: Gloucester: 1987-: 20).

Listing NGR: SO8286218771