Claverton Buildings The Ram

Claverton Buildings Nos 19 and 20, known as The Ram, are a public house and house, originally three terrace houses dating to the late 18th and early 19th centuries. They were converted into a public house around 1860.

The buildings are constructed of painted limestone ashlar, with a double Roman tile mansard roof to No.19 and slate to No.20. No.19 is two storeys with an attic and basement. It features replacement windows, a dormer above two first-floor windows, and a flat-roofed front extension with a large paired window. A moulded cornice, continued from the adjacent No.18, is present, with a blocking course removed. A cropped stack is on the right side. No.20 is three storeys and basement, with one window to each of the first and second floors, each being a tripartite plain sash. A flat-roofed pub extension is brought forward with a segmental parapet above a part-glazed door and a large paired sash window with a stone mullion. Above the first-floor lintel is a frieze and moulded cornice, with a further cornice, blocking course, and parapet to the second floor. Two stacks are visible on the shared party wall between Nos 20 and 21. The very broad gables conceal a double roof with a central valley. The rear is in coursed rubble with painted ashlar to the top floor of No.20, and two-storey cottages are built in parallel with a small yard. No.20 has plain sashes.

The interiors were not inspected. The pub interior of No. 20 has been opened out and altered in a rustic, heavily beamed style. This included an extension in 1967 into the former shop within 19 Claverton Buildings. The pub was refurbished by the Ushers Brewery in 1985, when equipment from the Old Ram Brewery was removed.

Nos 20 and 21 appear to have been part of a terrace originally encompassing Nos 20 to 25, but with likely 19th-century modifications. The opening of ‘The Ram’ is recorded in the Bath Express on 16th June 1860.