New County Hotel

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW SOUTHGATE STREET 844-1/12/265 (West side) 12/03/73 No.44 New County Hotel

GV II

Hotel. Rebuilt c1840 as the Ram Hotel on the site of the Ram Inn, completely remodelled internally in C20. Brick, stuccoed front with stone details, slate mansard roof with dormers above the front. A large block with entrance lobby to right, bar rooms and restaurant to left. EXTERIOR: three storeys, attic and cellar; the front of five bays with projecting band at first-floor level, string course at the sill level of the second-floor windows, crowning entablature stopped at either end by large moulded and carved brackets, and parapet with moulded capping heightened in the form of a shallow gable above the central bay. On the ground floor a C20 two-light window in each bay with, doorway to front bar replacing left-hand light of the central window, and doorway to lobby in the right-hand bay. The first floor treated as piano nobile: in each bay a pair of French doors with two-light fanlight is recessed in an opening framed by plain pilasters and entablature with moulded frieze and cornice supported by consoles, and very shallow pediment with carved tympanum above, and with a projecting sill with C20 guard railing replacing original wrought iron; on the second floor in each bay a plain sash in a slightly recessed, two-light opening with a central mullion; five dormers to attic, each with cornice supported on shaped end brackets, a shallow pedimental gable, and with a two-light casement. INTERIOR: C20 linings and features throughout; brick walled and vaulted cellar, probably c1840.

Listing NGR: SO8305218446