Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8218NE WESTGATE STREET 844-1/7/429 (South side) 23/01/52 Shire Hall

GV II

Shire hall portico and flanking wings. The original building, of which the portico remains, opened 1816. By Sir Robert Smirke for the County Magistrates. Substantial extensions to either side of entrance front, 1909-11, by MH Medland for Gloucestershire County Council. The entrance portico and the flanking wings retained when building was otherwise demolished and rebuilt with major additions, 1960-1970. Ashlar, composite roof. The original symmetrical facade, comprising portico between slightly projecting wings, is set back from street between later, flanking wings; the wider flanking wing on the east side returns along the west side of Berkeley Street. EXTERIOR: giant Ionic portico of three bays flanked by two-storey, single-bay wings is approached by two shallow flights of stone steps in forecourt flanked by later wings, above the portico the crowning entablature is slightly recessed between parapets with moulded copings above the single bay wings; on the front of each wing a central doorway and on the first floor a sash. The later projecting wings, of three storeys and basement, have canted angles at the outer corners on the sides towards the forecourt, plain ashlar plinths at basement level, raised bands at ground-floor sill level with banded rustication above capped by raised bands at first-floor sill level; the first and second floors faced with plain ashlar, crowning entablatures with parapets with open balustrade panels; all the sashes with glazing bars; a bronze sconce on each side of the portico. INTERIOR: mostly rebuilt 1960 to 1970. The Assize Courts at rear, formerly listed as part of Shire Hall, now listed as Crown Courts, Bearland (qv). (BOE: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean: London: 1976-: 239; VCH: The City of Gloucester: Oxford: 1988-: 249).



Listing NGR: SO8297918682

External Links

• Gloucester Shire Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q20878142

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas