The Black Swan Hotel

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW SOUTHGATE STREET 844-1/12/270 (West side) 12/03/73 Nos.68 AND 70 The Black Swan Hotel (Formerly Listed as: SOUTHGATE STREET (West side) Nos.68 AND 70 The Yeoman Hotel)

GV II

Hotel. 1849-50. By Hamilton and Medland, on the north-west side of the intersection of Southgate Street with Commercial Road formed 1848. Ashlar, brick, slate mansard roof with dormers, ashlar stacks. A range of five bays with curved frontage facing the street intersection; a further three bays which extended the range further along Commercial Road demolished c1965 and rebuilt 1993. EXTERIOR: three storeys, attic and cellar. Symmetrical Italianate street facade, faced in ashlar, of three bays flanked by wider, slightly projecting end bays (1:3:1); the ground floor, with banded rustication and with vermiculated quoins to the angles of the end bays, capped by a band at first-floor level; at first floor a moulded string course at window-sill level, and a crowning entablature with decorated frieze and modillion cornice and with a pediment above each of the end bays. On the ground floor in the central bay a former semicircular arched doorway blocked by a later window is framed by pilasters and a shallow canopy above supported on consoles; in each end bay a wide doorway with segmental-arched head containing a panelled door in a timber frame with side and top lights and the upper panels of the doors glazed; sashes in the second and fourth bays in recessed openings with segmental arched heads; all the segmental-arches with rusticated voussoirs set with raised keystones carved with portrait heads; on the first floor each end bay has a tripartite window with a central sash flanked by very narrow side sashes in openings framed by plain pilasters, entablature and pediment supported on consoles, in the three central bays sashes in openings framed by moulded architraves and entablatures; on the second floor a tripartite window in each end bay with sashes in openings framed by eared architraves and projecting sills supported on small moulded brackets; in the three central bays single sashes in openings with similar frames;

the sashes on both floors with single vertical glazing bars; in the tympanum of the pediment above each end bay a lunette window; two roof dormers with segmental roofs and casements with glazing bars. Three ashlar stacks with moulded cornices and ceramic chimney pots. The rear elevation in brick; on the ground floor to right a canted bay window with narrow sidelights and sashes with glazing bars; to left lighting the stair well a tall arched sash with glazing bars (3x10) panes; on upper floors other sashes with glazing bars. INTERIOR: believed to be completely refitted and without visible features of interest.

Listing NGR: SO8300518392