Imperial Inn

The Imperial Inn is a public house built around 1890, located on Northgate Street in Gloucester. It is constructed of brick with stone details, and the front is partly faced with elaborately moulded and coloured glazed tiles, topped with a slate roof. The building has two storeys and a cellar, featuring a double-depth block with a rear wing.

The ground floor showcases three bays defined by pilasters, which are raised on a panelled apron with a moulded plinth. The left and central bays have decorative, contrasting tiled panels, while the pilasters themselves are adorned with moulded panels, bases, capitals, and foliated brackets that support an entablature. This entablature frames the inscription "IMPERIAL INN" above the left and central bays, and features a moulded cartouche with flanking swags above the entrance doorway in the right-hand bay. A low decorative cast-iron balustrade runs along the top of the entablature, interrupted by a broken pediment with rosettes in the tympanum above the right-hand bay.

The doorway includes a fanlight over the transom and a six-panel door. Each of the left and central bays contains a window in a timber frame, featuring a large single lower light and three lights above an upper transom. All openings have segmental-arched heads and moulded tile surrounds, with decorative lead-light glazing in the fanlight and the upper central lights of the windows.

On the first floor, the façade is made of red brick, with pilasters at either end that rest on moulded stone corbels supporting a moulded stone crowning cornice. Above this, there is a parapet with moulded stone capping. The first floor also features a stone-framed tripartite window containing three plain, horned sashes of equal size, with segmental arched heads, plain mullions, quoined jambs at each end, and an eared hoodmould above the arches.

The interior of the Imperial Inn does not appear to retain any original features, but the building is noted as a fine example of a late 19th-century decorative tiled frontage.