Criterion Hotel
CRITERION HOTEL, 5, COMMERCIAL ROAD
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271650
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Criterion Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- CRITERION HOTEL, 5, COMMERCIAL ROAD
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2001-04-23
- Reference:
- IOE01/03996/15
- Rights:
- © Mr Jack Farley. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271650
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Criterion Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRITERION HOTEL, 5, COMMERCIAL ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CRITERION HOTEL, 5, COMMERCIAL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Gloucester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 82980 18365
Details
GLOUCESTER
SO8218SE COMMERCIAL ROAD 844-1/11/95 (South side) No.5 Criterion Hotel
GV II
Hotel. c1850 but incorporating at rear a mid C18 wing with early C19 alterations; the wing the surviving part of a former house pre-dating the formation of Commercial Road; the front block part of the terrace which includes Nos 7 & 9 Commercial Road (not included) adjoining to west. Brick, painted on front, slate roof, brick stacks. Front block double-depth block with wing to rear left. EXTERIOR: front block three storeys and cellar; rear wing two storeys and attic. Wide front with a raised band at first-floor sill level which drops to link with the sill band of the adjoining terrace houses; a cogged brick crowning cornice; on the ground-floor to right of centre the entrance doorway with a plain rectangular fanlight and 3-panel door,to either side a tripartite window with a central sash with a central vertical glazing bar and narrow side-light sashes, to the left a second and similar doorway with fanlight and four-panel door to side passage leading to rear yard. On both upper floors a similar tripartite sash above each of the two ground-floor windows; all the door and window openings have slightly cambered arched heads with voussoirs painted black, the keystones raised in the ground and second-floor arches. Across the front between the first and second-floor windows a framed panel painted with the name of the hotel and a painted shield above in a vertical extension of the panel between the second-floor windows. INTERIOR: the front block has contemporary joinery on upper floors; at junction with rear wing an early C19 staircase with stick balusters and ramped handrail; in the rear wing mid C18 staircase with closed string, square newels and turned balusters; principal room on the ground floor of wing has mid C18 fielded panel dado, moulded chair rail, full height fielded panels above and moulded cornice, in the west wall a mid C19 canted bay window; and an angled fireplace in north-east corner with mid C19 chimney-piece of polished slate painted with fruit and flowers. On the first floor C18 joinery including fielded panel doors; in the attic partly exposed principal rafters to trusses of four-bay roof over wing.
Listing NGR: SO8298018365
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472186
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 05-Jun-2026 at 17:56:18.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.