Summary

A former workshop and warehouse that incorporates the walls of a C18 coach house, later a slaughterhouse, and now (2021) a museum annexe. It dates to around 1830 with alterations in the mid-C20 and early C21.

Description

A former workshop and warehouse that incorporates the walls of a C18 coach house, later a slaughterhouse, and now (2021) a community heritage centre. It dates to around 1830 with alterations in the mid-C20 and early C21.

MATERIALS: constructed of brick with a hipped roof that was retiled in 1979. The Quay Street elevation is rendered.

PLAN: a long, single-depth range aligned north to south, situated at the south-east corner of the museum's rear courtyard.

EXTERIOR: two storeys with a tall ground floor. It has a brick dentil eaves cornice on the west side, and at the north end, there is a buttress that was added in 1979. To the right on the west side are irregular openings, and on the first floor is a loft doorway. The north elevation has a single window to first floor. The Quay Street elevation (south) is gabled, with a stone coping, a timber-framed, eight-over-eight sash window to the ground floor above a blind opening and a 12-pane timber-framed window to the first floor.

INTERIOR: the building has an open timber roof in four bays with collar trusses and single purlins. There is also a beam that was fitted in the C19 with iron pulleys to raise meat carcasses when the building was a slaughterhouse.

Formerly listed as: Cider House to east of corner of Folk Museum Courtyard

History

The building is depicted on an estate map of 1780 and was owned by Robert Lovesey, a timber merchant and wheelwright, from 1825. From the mid-C19 to 1963 it was used as a slaughterhouse, and its south end was converted to a house, number 2 Quay Street. In 1969 the building was acquired by Gloucester Folk Museum, and following its sale to Gloucester Historic Buildings Ltd in 2021 is now a part of the Folk of Gloucester. It was restored and houses a horse-driven cider mill and press. In 2009, it underwent further alteration and extension, with the installation of toilets on the ground floor, a replica ‘Victorian Classroom’ on the first floor and a linked two-storey extension to the west.

Reasons for Listing

The Cider House to the rear of The Folk of Gloucester is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* its architecture is mainly utilitarian, but the alterations to the building illustrate its changing and complex history.

Historic interest:

* as an interesting example of a C18 coach house that was remodelled for warehouse use in the early C19 and from the mid-C19 as a slaughterhouse.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537642

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)