GLOUCESTER ROAD, Thornbury
1840 Tithe Map
No. 6 Laburnum House
No. 8 Gloucester Road
No. 10 Gloucester Road
No. 12 Gloucester Road
No. 14 Gloucester Road
No. 16 Gloucester Road
No. 18 Gloucester Road
No. 20 Gloucester Road
No. 22 Gloucester Road
No. 24 Gloucester Road
Other properties
The Old Mill
1- 11 Gloucester Road
Shipps Garage
Sources
In the late 1830’s a survey of the area was made for the purpose of calculating the amount payable to the Manor in place of the tithe. This survey provides the earliest plan of the area covered by Laburnum Terrace and gives details of who owned and occupied the land, and its use at that time. It was published in 1840 but seems to have taken two or three years to compile. This means some information was out of date by the time it was published.
Plot 249 – house, stables and garden owned by John Hodges and occupied by Charles Ford. Gross value £15. Net value £13.
This plot relates to the properties now known as No 20 and No 22 Gloucester Road. The plan and accompanying details shows clearly that in 1840 the two properties were combined in some way. Although there is a line on the plan suggesting the main building is divided, the rear extension is not divided and there is no wall splitting the garden into two as there is today. Furthermore there was only one occupier and the gross and net values equal that of the two properties next door (Plot 248) which are clearly shown as two separate houses and gardens.
Note: there is no garden at the front of Plot 249. In fact the road is a lot wider here than elsewhere. There are stables listed in Plot 249 and opposite in Plot 250.
Plot 248 – house and garden owned by John Hodges. The detail shows the plot is divided into 2 units, one occupied by John Hodges, himself, and the other by Thomas Longstreet. The gross value of each property was £7 10s and the net value of each property was £6 5s.
This plot relates to the two properties now known as No 16 and No. 18 Gloucester Road.
Plot 247 – yard and workshops owned and occupied by John Hodges. The gross value was £7 10s and the net value £9 10s.
This plot appears to cover the land on which Nos 6 – 14 Gloucester Road now stand. It shows that none of these properties were built before 1840.
Plot 246 - garden owned and occupied by John Hodges.
Plot 245 - yard owned by James Ford and occupied by John Hodges.
James Ford was a maltster who owned several plots of land in the area including the land (Plot 244) now occupied by Gloucester House, No. 2 Gloucester Road.