New County Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Gloucester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1973. Hotel. 6 related planning applications.
New County Hotel
- WRENN ID
- grey-sentry-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gloucester
- Constituency
- Gloucester MP: Alex McIntyre (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1973
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- New County Hotel, 44, Southgate Street, GL1 2DU
- OS grid reference
- SO 830 184
- Coordinates
- 51.86434, -2.24753
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The New County Hotel is a hotel that was rebuilt around 1840 as the Ram Hotel, located on the site of the former Ram Inn. The building has been completely remodeled internally in the 20th century. It features a brick exterior with stucco and stone details, topped by a slate mansard roof with dormers.
The hotel is a large structure with three storeys, an attic, and a cellar. The front facade consists of five bays, with a projecting band at the first-floor level and a string course at the sill level of the second-floor windows. The building is crowned by an entablature that is stopped at either end by large moulded and carved brackets, and there is a parapet with moulded capping that is heightened in the form of a shallow gable above the central bay.
On the ground floor, there are 20th-century two-light windows in each bay, with a doorway to the front bar replacing the left-hand light of the central window, and a doorway to the lobby in the right-hand bay. The first floor is treated as a piano nobile, featuring a pair of French doors with a two-light fanlight in each bay, recessed in openings framed by plain pilasters and an entablature with a moulded frieze and cornice supported by consoles, along with a very shallow pediment with a carved tympanum above. The projecting sill has a 20th-century guard railing that replaces the original wrought iron. On the second floor, there are plain sashes in slightly recessed, two-light openings with a central mullion. The attic contains five dormers, each with a cornice supported on shaped end brackets, a shallow pedimental gable, and a two-light casement.
The interior features 20th-century linings and details throughout, with a brick-walled and vaulted cellar that likely dates back to around 1840.
Local climate
New County Hotel receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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