Listing Text

SO 8403-8503 RODBOROUGH BATH ROAD
(east side)

15/97 Old Fleece Inn

GV II

Formerly 2 houses, later coaching inn, now public house. Mid C18;
mid C19 alterations. Coursed rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys;
stone slate roof. Two-storey with attic. Front: gabled part to
right with 4-window fenestration and 2 gables. Casements are mid
C19 3-light mullioned with 4-centred arched heads and hoodmoulds;
3-light attic casement in each gable. Central Tudor arched doorway
with hoodmould; double panelled doors. Ashlar gable end chimneys
with moulded caps. Building to left has central Tudor arched
doorway with hoodmould and 4-panel door. Three-window
fenestration, 3-light to left, 2-light over door and to right, all
with 4-centred arched heads and hoodmoulds. Two eaves-mounted
gabled roof dormers. Single-storey projecting wing at north end.
Rear: built into bank. Recorded as inn since 1870. (Shown in
illustration dated 1797 in N.M. Herbert, 'Rodborough' in V.C.H.
Glos xi, 1976, pp. 218-234.)

Listing NGR: SO8422803100