Imperial Inn

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW NORTHGATE STREET 844-1/8/222 (North side) 12/03/73 No.59 Imperial Inn

GV II

Public house. c1890. Brick with stone details, the front partly faced with glazed tiles, slate roof. Double-depth block with rear wing. EXTERIOR: two storeys and cellar; on the ground floor the front is faced with elaborately moulded and coloured glazed tiles in three bays defined by pilasters raised on a panelled apron with a moulded plinth and with decorative, contrasting, tiled panels in the left and central bays; pilasters with decorative, contrasting, moulded panels on the faces, moulded bases, capitals and foliated brackets supporting an entablature with a frieze framing inscription "IMPERIAL INN" above the left and central bays and a moulded cartouche with flanking swags in the frieze panel above the entrance doorway in the right-hand bay; on top of the entablature a low, decorative, cast-iron balustrade is interrupted by a broken pediment with rosettes in the tympanum above the right-hand bay; doorway with fanlight over transom and six-panel door; in each of the left and central bays a window in a timber frame with a large, single lower light and three-lights above an upper transom; all the openings with segmental-arched heads and moulded tile surrounds; decorative lead-light glazing in the fanlight of the doorway and the upper central lights of the windows. The first floor of red brick with pilasters at either end on moulded stone corbels supporting the moulded stone crowning cornice; parapet above with moulded stone capping; a stone-framed tripartite window containing three plain, horned sashes of equal size with segmental arched heads, with plain mullions, quoined jambs at each end, and eared hoodmould above the arches. INTERIOR: no original features apparent. A fine example of a late C19 decorative tiled frontage.

Listing NGR: SO8330518712