Old Judges House

Westgate Street runs south-east to north-west through the city, to the south of the cathedral. It is "by far the longest and most important street of medieval Gloucester". The Old Judges House stands at No. 26, with a narrow passageway, Maverdine Lane, to the right. David Verey and Alan Brooks, in their Gloucestershire 2 volume in the Pevsner Buildings of England series, revised and re-issued in 2002, describe it as "the most magnificent 16/17th timber-framed merchant's house remaining" in the city. The building dates from the late-15th century when it was built as a combined shop and house. It was much enlarged and embellished in the late-16th/early-17th centuries. In the 18th, the façade…

The street frontage is of four-storeys, faced with stone, and rendered. The Tudor frontage is of three-storeys with three bays, and has been tree-ring dated to 1586-1587. Verey and Brooks describe the close studding decoration as "astonishingly rich". The interior contains much original detail, including "rare, original patterned leaded glass". The Old Judges House is a Grade I listed building.