The Romany Inn

SP3003-3103 BAMPTON BRIDGE STREET (South-east side) 13/33 The Romany Inn 12/09/55 (Formerly listed as Premises adjoining Ye Talbot Inn to the West, under Market Place (south side))

GV II Former house and shop, now small hotel. Early C19. Limestone ashlar front with coursed rubble side and rear walls. Hipped Welsh slate roof, ashlar chimneys to centre and right, white brick chimney to left. Square plan. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Projecting plinth and band courses. Upper storeys have 3-pane sash windows in recessed surrounds, the central first floor bay with French doors to balcony. Ground floor has canted bay windows with sashes to outer bays, the left of ashlar with recessed window surrounds and parapet, the right much reconstructed C20 and mostly of wood. To centre is a large former shop window with C20 glazing bars and flanking doorways in recessed surrounds. Left doorway has flush panelled door and blind fanlight; narrower doorway to right is blocked. Across front of whole of centre bay is a porch with stone Doric columns and entablature blocks, wooden cornice, and balcony above with early C19 cast iron railings. (Illustrated in Country Life, July 19th, 1946, p119)

Listing NGR: SP3145803135