Ram'S Head Hotel And Mounting Block

The Ram's Head Hotel, built around 1840, is an inn located in Fountain Square, Disley. It is constructed from white-washed and pebble-dashed sandstone rubble, featuring black-painted sandstone dressings. The building has a green slate roof with moulded stone copings and four stone chimneys, designed in the Tudor Gothick style. It stands 2½ storeys tall with a symmetrical five-bay front, arranged as two bays, one central bay, and two more bays. The end bays project slightly and are topped with coped triangular gables, each containing three-light mullioned windows under hood moulds and single lancets under hood moulds in the gables.

The central porch is single-storey with a coped, plain parapet and a raised centre above a four-centred arched doorcase, which features Gothick tracery in the fan light. The original half-glass doors have narrow half-glazed panels on the sides, bordered by narrow wooden half-columns, although there are 20th-century copies in front. The sides of the porch have hooded lancets, and above it is a three-light mullion and a carved ram's head on the coped eave. To the right of the main building is a similar contemporary L-shaped wing.

Inside, the hotel features many four-centred arched openings with hood moulds that have ram's head label stops. There is a Gothick dogleg staircase with cast-iron balusters adorned with pierced trefoils, a buttressed octagonal newel with moulded Gothick panels, and a very tall crocketted pinnacle above. Additionally, there is a single sandstone mounting block with four steps located just to the right of the porch.