The Whitesmiths Arms

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE SOUTHGATE STREET 844-1/11/276 (East side) No.81 The Whitesmiths Arms

GV II

House, now public house. C18 with C19 alterations but probably encapsulating parts of an earlier building. Brick, partly rendered in pebble dash, slate roof with a single hipped dormer, brick stacks. Single depth end-gabled parallel block with stack to left gable and rear wing to left in Albion Street. EXTERIOR: two storeys, attic and cellar; symmetrical front remodelled c1870; central entrance doorway with rectangular fanlight and to either side a recess enclosing a pair of horned sashes; the doorway and both recesses framed by plain pilasters supporting a continuous architrave with a cornice moulding; on the first floor at each end a sash with a single vertical glazing bar in openings with projecting stone sills and in the centre above the doorway an inn sign hanging from a metal bracket; in the roof dormer a pair of casements with glazing bars. The north wall of the rear wing in Albion Street has irregular fenestration including, on the ground floor, a C18 sash with glazing bars. INTERIOR: some indications of residual timber-framing. Prominently sited to east of The Docks (qv).

Listing NGR: SO8288118136