Old Crown Inn (West Side)

GLOUCESTER

SO8218NE WESTGATE STREET 844-1/7/414 (South side) 23/01/52 No.83 Old Crown Inn (west side) (Formerly Listed as: WESTGATE STREET (South side) No.83)

GV II

Town house. Early to mid C18; in C19 a shop and dwelling; altered and remodelled internally 1989-90, in conjunction with No.81 Westgate Street (qv) for conversion to public house. Brick with stone details, slate roof. Double-depth block with wing to rear. EXTERIOR: three storeys, cellar and attic; on the front raised and chamfered quoins at each corner, crowning entablature with returned ends and shallow gable, formerly a crowning pediment. On the ground floor the former C19 shop-front replaced by three late C20 sashes above plain aprons with the doorway to right, all framed by C19 pilasters with a bracket at each end of fascia; on the first floor two sashes with segmental heads and glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings with stone Gibbs surrounds, segmental-arched heads with raised, triple-facet keystones, and projecting, moulded stone sills; on the second floor two sashes with segmental heads and glazing bars (4x3 panes) in openings with moulded stone architraves, segmental-arched heads with raised triple-facet keystones and projecting, moulded stone sills above stone aprons; in the gable an oculus with cross glazing bars in a keyed stone frame. INTERIOR: no visible features of interest.

Listing NGR: SO8292118736