History

Shown on 1834 map. At an early date it established itself as the main hotel in the town. J P Seddon produced plans for rebuilding it in Victorian Gothic style but they were never executed.

Exterior

Three-storey basement and attic mixed 11-bay (1 3 7) painted stucco front with part rusticated ground floor. To left incorporating the former cross range and right-hand pavilion of No 24; right-hand seven bays are stepped up. Slate roofs, bracket eaves and ridge cresting to cross range roof with pediment treatment to gable end; rubble chimney stacks. Sash windows replaced by modern glazing but retain architraves with scrolled and moulded keystones; some blocked to second floor, modern bay to left. Modern loggia forward to the street and entrance offset to right; sash and casement windows to basement.

Part scribed stucco right gable end; rubble rear with mixed rendered courtyard buildings reached off Corporation Street; arched headed stained glass windows.

Reasons for Listing

Included for group value.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29488915

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)