Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW SOUTHGATE STREET
844-1/12/265 (West side)
12/03/73 No.44
New County Hotel

GV II

Hotel. Rebuilt c1840 as the Ram Hotel on the site of the Ram
Inn, completely remodelled internally in C20. Brick, stuccoed
front with stone details, slate mansard roof with dormers
above the front. A large block with entrance lobby to right,
bar rooms and restaurant to left.
EXTERIOR: three storeys, attic and cellar; the front of five
bays with projecting band at first-floor level, string course
at the sill level of the second-floor windows, crowning
entablature stopped at either end by large moulded and carved
brackets, and parapet with moulded capping heightened in the
form of a shallow gable above the central bay.
On the ground floor a C20 two-light window in each bay with,
doorway to front bar replacing left-hand light of the central
window, and doorway to lobby in the right-hand bay. The first
floor treated as piano nobile: in each bay a pair of French
doors with two-light fanlight is recessed in an opening framed
by plain pilasters and entablature with moulded frieze and
cornice supported by consoles, and very shallow pediment with
carved tympanum above, and with a projecting sill with C20
guard railing replacing original wrought iron; on the second
floor in each bay a plain sash in a slightly recessed,
two-light opening with a central mullion; five dormers to
attic, each with cornice supported on shaped end brackets, a
shallow pedimental gable, and with a two-light casement.
INTERIOR: C20 linings and features throughout; brick walled
and vaulted cellar, probably c1840.

Listing NGR: SO8305218446

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561671

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