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Reference number

SM 56/9/1

Purpose

[5] Design for alterations and additions to the first, second and third floors and to the back elevation, 1828

Aspect

Plan of the Ground Floor

Scale

bar scale of ¼ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

As above, The Bank of England Branch Gloucester, boundaries labelled: Mr Roberts Grocer Shop, Mr Roberts Premises, Mr Woods / Cottages, Cottage No 4, Cottage No3, Malting House in the occupation of Mr Cornish, Mr Wingate Bookbinder, Mr Wheeler Linen Draper, lettered A B C D E F G H I K L M, plan labelled: Lobby, Height of Banking Room / 15.10 clear, Desk, Step, Drawers in No3 heights, open in / froget (sic) for / Clipping / B lock, Desk and Cubboards (sic) under, Passage to the Agents Residence, arch, Agents Private Room, Strong / Room / Brick Arch, Back Office, Clerks / W Closet, urinal, Staircase, Footmans / Sink, Footmans Room, Kitchen, Pantry (twice), No 3 heights of shelves (3 times), Copper, Stone Sink, Pump and dimensions given. Door schedule: A 2" Deal Door with Ironplates, good Lock with pipe Key / BB 2 deal Sash doors with Mortice Locks C 2 Deal Doors made to lift in and out - Mortice lock D 7/8 Wrot(wrought) Iron Panelled Door, with a Lock 2.3 by 1.0 / Shooting 3 bolts into Iron frame - / EE Wrot Iron framed Guards screwed to linings bar 7/8 sqe (square) / at 4 inches apart / F 2 deal Door with Mortice Lock and Latch / G 2 deal Door lined with Ironplating inside and fastened / inside by an Iron Rim Lock and 2 panel Bolts / H H H 2 deal Shutters lined inside with Ironplating, fastened / by one Bar across with spring Staple and the Bars have each a Ball attached thereto / I Porters Bed / K 2½ deal Door lined inside with Ironplate fastened / an Iron Rim Lock a Barrel Chair and 2 cross Bars of --- (illegible) / Fanlight over of Iron / L 2½ deal Door - fastened with Iron Rim Lock, 2 large Barrel / Bolt. Barrel Chair / M Door of 2 thicknesses of 1½ deal with Ironplates between and / bolted together - Iron Rim Lock. 1 Strong Iron Bars across / and Padlocks attached / Mem. Iron Railing on the Wall above the doorway and dimensions give; (verso) Gloucester Branch

Signed and dated

  • 24th Decr 1828 (nothing in Day Book)

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pink and sepia washes, pricked for transfer on thin wove paper (718 x 555)

Hand

George Bailey (1792-1860, pupil then assistant 1806-37, curator 1837-60)

Notes

The site measures about 105 feet from back to front and 41 feet 6 inches at its widest. The building seen here (outlined in sepia wash) is a three-storey building with a single-storey extension that housed part of the bank: the agent's room, strong room and back office.

The proposed new work (of 1828) for the bank itself includes increasing its security and thus the schedule of doors and their locks as well as a bed for the porter. The proposed extension to the building was to provide domestic accommodation for the 'agent' or bank manager. Hence the kitchen, sculleries, wash house, footman's room and a further room on this ground floor plan.

The original building on this site was presumably the 'Old Dwelling House' to the rear inscribed thus on drawing 1 (SM 56/9/13).

Level

Drawing

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