Bank House Old Bell Hotel

DURSLEY LONG STREET ST 7598 (north side) 5/24 Bank House and No 13 (Old Bell Hotel) 23.6.52 GV II

Town house and hotel. Late C18. Red Flemish bond brick; brick chimneys; asbestos cement slate roof. Three-storey with attic; long 3-storey rear wing. Front: centre breaks forward and has pedimented parapet. Fenestration generally 2:3:2, but central windows moved off-centre to left. All windows have C19 plate glass sashes except for late C19 public house front and adjoining entrance archway in painted stone; slender cast-iron columns to rusticated round arches of public house front. Other ground floor windows are 2 plain sashes to left of centre, and 6-panel door beyond break forward flanked by plain sashes. Round-arched windows to middle floor with plain fanlights above sashes; outer sashes within Venetian windows. Small plain sashes to upper floor. All have raised brick surrounds, those to middle and upper floors having aprons with stone guttae below. Rusticated pilasters at each end of facade. Four gabled roof dormers behind solid parapet. Rear: long rear wing of random rubble marlstone, increased in height to 3-storey in brick. North east side: four timber casements to ground floor with timber lintels; three 12-pane sashes to upper floor. South west : sash fenestration to upper floor. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST7565498174