Old Crown Inn (East Side)

GLOUCESTER

SO8218NE WESTGATE STREET 844-1/7/412 (South side) 12/03/73 No.81 Old Crown Inn (east side) (Formerly Listed as: WESTGATE STREET (South side) No.81)

GV II

Shop and dwelling, now part of public house. Early C19, altered and remodelled internally 1989-90, in conjunction with No.83 Westgate Street (qv), for conversion to public house. Painted brick front block and brick wing, hipped slate roofs, brick stack. Double-depth blockon corner of Upper Quay Street; now entered through No.83 Westgate Street (qv); and a rear wing, probably the conversion of a former early C19 house in Upper Quay Street. EXTERIOR: three storeys and cellar; stone coped parapets; on the front the ground floor remodelled 1990, on each of the upper floors two sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings with flat-arched heads of five raised-and-stepped stone voussoirs; on the east side of the front block on the ground floor the return of the remodelled front to right, and a sash to left; on each of the upper floors two widely-spaced sashes, all with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings with projecting stone sills. The front of the lower wing at rear, facing Upper Quay Street, on the ground floor has a doorway to left with rectangular fanlight in a timber frame of pilasters and entablature, and on each upper floor two sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes), all in openings with rubbed brick flat arches and projecting stone sills. INTERIOR: no visible features of interest.

Listing NGR: SO8292518732