Ye Old Painswick Inn

Ye Old Painswick Inn is a public house built in 1890 by architect W.H.C. Fisher. It is constructed of red brick, with the main elevations faced in squared and coursed limestone, and features stone slate roofs and ashlar stacks with moulded cornicing. The building has a rectangular plan with a main entrance flanked by two bars and a stable yard to the left (north).

The inn is designed in a Free Style and has two storeys and an attic, with a three-window range on the first floor at the front. The entrance features a segmental-pedimented doorcase in Early Georgian style, flanked by transomed windows with stilted keyed and segmental arches. The keys touch a string course that forms the lower part of a broad horizontal band, which includes lettering flanked by swags and is topped by a heavy cornice. The first floor has four-light flank windows and two-light stone-mullioned and transomed windows, which sit on a cornice and are topped by a continuous drip course that forms the lower part of a band at eaves level. The attic features swagged aprons beneath three-light stone-mullioned windows with drip moulds, set in full-height dormers with Dutch gables.

The horizontal courses continue to articulate the return elevations, which have similar fenestration. Inside, the inn retains original joinery and plaster cornicing. The stable yard to the left (north) is bordered on the east and north-east sides by a range built of similar materials. This includes a three-bay cartshed with cast-iron piers and a Welsh slate roof, connected on the north to a one-storey and attic range with stone lintels over three-light casements, including gabled half-dormers, and an opening with a sliding door. The gable end facing Slad Road features an oculus set beneath a Dutch gable.

Fisher was a local architect who previously worked with J.P. Seddon on the School of Art and Science in Lansdowne, also completed in 1890. Ye Old Painswick Inn is a fine and well-preserved example of late 19th-century public house architecture in a popular style, complete with its stable yard.