Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9522SW HIGH STREET 630-1/14/404 (North East side) 02/03/77 Nos.55 AND 57 The Restoration Inn (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (North East side) No.57 The Restoration Inn)

GV II

Inn and house, now inn. C17, with later alterations and additions including range to right c1820-50 and those c1880-1900 and mid-late C20. Main (left) range: timber-framed and rendered with pseudo timbering applied on first floor, renewed artificial slate roof, with one off-ridge brick stack to front and brick stack to rear; range to right is stucco over brick with concealed roof and renewed left brick stack. EXTERIOR: main range: two and a half storeys, 2 dormer windows (one gabled) with casements; range to right of 3 storeys, 2 first-floor windows. Left range: first floor in 2 distinct parts, the left side has 8/8 sash and modest false timbering, right side has renewed casement window and close studded false timbering. High parapet partly conceals attic dormers with casement windows. Range to right has 6/6 sashes to ground and first floors, taller to first floor, all in plain reveals and with sills; low coped parapet. Ground floor: continuous late C19-style shop front on in 3 arcaded sections, repeated in 3 similar sections to left return. Entrances to far right and off-centre right are panelled doors. 2-storey return extension with three 8/8 sashes on first floor and skylight. INTERIOR: 1983 List describes considerable portions of the earlier building with heavy beams and a number of studs and posts. The lower 2-storey extension to north-east appears to have a lath and plaster flue to its (later) brick chimney. Occupies a corner site with Grosvenor Street. Together with Nos 54 and 331 (qqv), the C17 fabric is the best-known pre-Regency domestic survival within the boundaries of the early town. (List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Department of the Environment: Borough of Cheltenham: 1983-).





Listing NGR: SO9521422172

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