The Ram Inn

The Ram Inn, now also a shop, is a public house dating to 1883, with subsequent remodelling in the 1930s. It was originally built for Young's Ram Brewery and was formerly known as the Ram Inn. The building is constructed of yellow brick with plaster details and a glazed terra cotta ground floor. It is two to three storeys high.

The corner section of the building is curved, situated at the junction of Wandsworth High Street and Ram Street, and features four window bays to each return on the second floor. There are additional three to five bays on the first and ground floors. A carriage entrance is located at the north end of Ram Street, and a wider entrance faces west onto Wandsworth High Street. The ground floor’s terra cotta cladding uses pilasters with flat ionic capitals to define the window bays. The upper floors, dating to 1883, have first-floor windows within plastered architraves topped by shallow scrolled pediments connected by a continuous frieze. Second-floor windows are also within plastered architraves and sit beneath a corbelled eaves cornice. The corner bay displays green lettering reading "THE RAM INN" on the frieze, flanked by glazed plaques depicting a ram motif and "Young & Co.'s Ales & Stout" above "Public Bar"; this entrance is now blocked. The upper storeys in the corner bay are slightly advanced and have a pediment over the first-floor window. A corbelled base supports a chimney extending above the shallow hipped roof. Entrances are located on both Wandsworth High Street and Ram Street, each flanked by similar terra cotta plaques.

The ground floor interior retains beamed plaster ceilings. A notable neo-Elizabethan room on the first floor features wood-panelled walls and a plaster ceiling with a honeycomb pattern and foliate decoration, alongside a wide stone chimneypiece.

The site’s history includes a purchase by Young & Bainbridge in 1831, and the pub replaced an earlier Ram Inn, believed to have dated from the late 17th century, which was damaged in an 1881 fire at the brewery. It was further damaged during World War II. The pub was originally named the Ram until it was renamed the Brewery Tap in 1974.

The Ram Inn is notable as a handsome corner pub of 1883 with historicist interiors, and for its role as the brewery tap for Young's brewery. It has group value with other listed buildings on the site, including the Grade II* Brewery, the Grade II former Brewer’s House, and the Grade II stables, as well as with the Grade II late-19th-century Spread Eagle public houses across Wandsworth High Street.