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9 and 9A Southgate Street, Gloucester

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Thomas and Elizabeth (Edwards) Whitefield (newlyweds from Bristol, England), during their honeymoon in Gloucester, purchased both the apothecary and the next door home of Mayor Yates. They converted it into the luxurious Bell Inn (Hotel), complete with full service stables and stores on the bottom
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Around this time the left rear wing was rebuilt in brick and sash windows were added to it. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century the upper floors were remodeled and in the twentieth century, the shop front was updated. In 1912, 9/9A became part of the Bell Inn.
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which form part of the attic. Inside there is a nineteenth-century staircase up to the first floor. The front room of the first floor has decorative plasterwork and a mid-nineteenth century fireplace within a magnificently carved surround with
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floor. The old apothecary building was converted into a tavern with a theater and a ballroom for large social events. Actors were hired by the Whitefield family to perform at Bell Inn Pub Building, once referred to as the Apothecary.
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On 27 December 1714, the Reverend George Whitefield was born at the Bell Inn, the seventh and last child born to the Whitefields. In 1782,
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In 2014, Gloucester City Council added LED lights to the front of the building to draw attention to the timber facade at night time.
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There have been reports that the building is haunted by a spirit called Elsie who likes to move cutlery around.
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when it was founded in 1789. In the nineteenth century 9/9A was also known as the Old Blue shop where blue
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which rise from the first to the top floor. The rooms of the second floor and attic are panelled in oak.
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The actual Bell Inn building itself was actually built for the Mayor of Gloucester at the time,
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In 1967, the Bell Inn was closed. It was demolished in the 1970s to make room for
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The building has three storeys as well as an attic and cellar. It has a timber
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were added to all of the upper floors in the eighteenth century.
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above it which dates to 1650. There are seventeenth century
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Jacobean architecture
Coordinates
51°51′54″N 2°14′46″W / 51.8649588°N 2.24616220°W / 51.8649588; -2.24616220
Listed Building
Jacobean
Southgate Street
Thomas Yate
Sash windows
John Phillpott
Tory True Blue Club
dye
Eastgate Shopping Centre
Gloucester City Council
facade
Mayflower
dormers
cherubs
cornucopia
pediment
coat of arms
dog-leg stairs





Historic England
"9 and 9A, Southgate Street (Grade I) (1271748)"
National Heritage List for England

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