Gloucester Old Peoples Centre

The Gloucester Old People's Centre, formerly known as The Old Raven Tavern, is a merchant's house dating from around 1520, with late 16th century additions and alterations. It became a tavern in the late 17th century and underwent extensive restoration and some alterations for the trustees of the Raven Fund by H.F. Trew, with support from the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, around 1950. In 1964, it was altered for use as an old people's centre, with later single-storey extensions added in the yard at the rear.

The building features a timber frame with rendered infill panels and a tiled roof, which includes two large cross-gabled dormers and a brick stack. The structure is two storeys and an attic high, with the front range consisting of three structural bays. The left-hand bay has been largely rebuilt. On the ground floor, large windows with glazing bars were inserted around 1950 between the bay posts, and there is an entrance doorway framed by the right-hand window. The first floor has a continuous jetty supported on knee brackets off the posts, with a pair of massive, slightly curved tension braces in each bay. Each bay features a three-light leadlight casement, added around 1950, replacing an 18th-century sash. The late 16th-century gabled dormers have fronts with close studding, a central quatrefoil below the middle rail, a three-light leadlight casement above the middle rail, and a quatrefoil panel in the apex of each gable. The barge boards are cut in a stepped pattern with a drop finial at each apex, and the left-hand dormer was rebuilt around 1950.

Inside, the building was mostly refitted around 1950, including a staircase to the first floor. Some exposed framing and bridging beams with stop-chamfered edges can be seen on the first floor. The house is popularly associated with the Hoare family, although it has been incorrectly referred to as the Raven Tavern; the actual Raven Tavern was located in Southgate Street.