Bath Tavern

The Bath Tavern is an inn built between 1800 and 1820, with later additions and alterations. It features a stucco exterior over brick and a double pitch slate roof, supported by four tall end stucco and brick stacks. The building has a double depth plan with an extension at the rear.

The exterior is two storeys high and has three first-floor windows. The first floor showcases outer flush 6-pane casement windows with margin lights, and there is a blind opening in the centre. On the ground floor, there are two outer canted bays, with double part-glazed doors and a divided overlight in the left bay, while the rest has early 20th-century plate-glass windows with divided overlights. The central entrance features a four-flush-panel door with an overlight that has glazing bars. The building is topped with a low coped parapet, and the right return retains 6/6 sash windows.

Inside, the tavern preserves its original joinery and layout, with a bar in the left room and a snug on the right, connected by a passage. The bar area retains a plank dado and a fireplace, and the panelled bar has a renewed counter. There is also plank panelling in the hall. The Bath Tavern is a very rare surviving example of a small early 19th-century public house, with many of its original fittings intact, located on one of the main approach roads into Cheltenham. It has group value with the Bell Inn.