Ram'S Head Hotel And Mounting Block

SJ 97 84 DISLEY C.P. FOUNTAIN SQUARE

7/26 Ram's Head Hotel and Mounting Block

GV II

Inn: C.1840. White-washed and pebble-dashed sandstone rubble with black-painted sandstone dressings. Green slate roof with moulded stone copings and 4 stone chimneys. Tudor Gothick style. 2½ storeys. Symmetrical 5-bay front (2:1:2) and central single-storey porch. End bays project slightly under coped triangular gables with 3-light, mullioned windows under hood moulds and single lancers under hood moulds in gables. Porch has coped, plain parapet with raised centre above 4-centred, arched, doorcase with Gothick tracery in fan light. Original half glass doors with narrow half glazed panels to the side bordered by narrow wooden half columns behind, with C20 copies in front. Hooded lancets in side. Above is 3-light mullion and a carved ram's head on coped eave. Similar contemporary L-shaped wing to right. Interior: Many 4-centred, arched openings with hood moulds on ram's head label stops. Gothick dogleg staircase with cast-iron balusters with pierced trefoils and buttressed octagonal newel with moulded Gothick panels and very tall crocketted pinnacle above.

A single, sandstone, mounting block of 4 steps just to right of the porch.

Listing NGR: SJ9746184611