Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW SOUTHGATE STREET
844-1/8/251 (East side)
12/03/73 No.5
(Formerly Listed as:
SOUTHGATE STREET
(East side)
No.5
Baker, Watches and Clocks)

GV II

Shop and dwelling. 1904. Brick with dressed stone details,
slate roof. Double-depth block.
EXTERIOR: four storeys and cellar; on the front a fine
well-preserved, original shop-front with recessed entry to
left, and large windows of plate glass set in cast-iron frame
of colonnettes with small, decorative brackets in the upper
angles: the windows framed at each end by slender pilasters
inset with panels of mirror glass, and with consoles
supporting finials at each end of the fascia, the fascia
inscribed in centre "BAKER", to left "PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER",
and to right "JEWELLER AND OPTICIAN", all in gilt lettering;
on the first floor a wide arched recess with a stone basket
arch on moulded stone imposts; on the second and on the third
floor three horned sashes with bars in the upper sashes in
openings with stone sills projecting from stone bands and
stone lintels; pilaster strips at either end of the front
corbelled out from second-floor level, a shallow crowning
cornice, and parapet with stone balustrade panels.
The building is notable for its clock made by Niehus Brothers
of Bristol, with five life-size automata figures striking
bells on the hours and quarters; the figures standing within
the arched recess on the first floor: in the centre Father
Time with an hour glass, to right John Bull and a Welshwoman,
to the left a Scotsman and an Irishwoman; above the crown of
the arch a decorative, cast-iron, cantilever bracket
supporting a clock crowned by a brass finial, and hanging from
the bracket a larger bell.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(BOE: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of
Dean: London: 1976-: 250; Gloucester Journal: 26 November:
1904-).

Listing NGR: SO8315518527

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561661

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