The Vauxhall Inn

The Vauxhall Inn is a late 19th-century public house located on the south-west corner of Barton Street and Vauxhall Road in Gloucester. It is a rectangular, double-depth block with a central wing at the rear.

The building's lower storey is faced with glazed, polychrome ceramic tiles in an exuberant Arts and Crafts style with Baroque details. Above this is a red brick upper storey with stone detailing, capped by a hipped slate roof and brick stacks. The front facing Barton Street has seven tiled bays, with a narrow eighth bay to the right. This front is characterised by panelled pilasters on pedestals with foliated capitals, segmental-arched doorway and window openings, and decorative moulded tile surrounds. There are doorways in the first and fifth bays, with large windows filling the remaining bays. Above the windows are plain spandrels, and above the arches are elaborately moulded foliated spandrels which project on moulded corbels over the doorways. A moulded entablature runs at first-floor level, featuring ceramic tile inscriptions: "THE VAUXHALL INN" above the three left windows and "WINES AND SPIRITS" above the two right windows. Swan-neck pediments supporting finials sit above each doorway. The windows have moulded timber frames with a full-width lower light and, above an upper transom, three segmental-arched lights; the windows in bays 1, 3, 4, and 5 have acid-etched privacy panels with a Mitchell and Butler monogramme, while window 2 has plain and inner glass panels. The front facing Vauxhall Road has four tiled bays and a narrow fifth bay to the right, with a doorway in the left bay featuring a pediment inscribed with "THE VAUXHALL INN" in tile. The first floor has three sashes, with details similar to those on the Barton Street front.

Inside, the inner lobby has stained glass to the upper panels of a glazed screen. The lounge bar features a panelled bar with turned balusters to the cornice and a central clock, along with a reset bar-back.

The exterior, with its glazed tiles and etched glass, exemplifies late 19th-century pub architecture. The name commemorates the Blenheim pleasure gardens (renamed "Vauxhall" in circa 1832), which were established just to the south of the site in 1812.