New County Hotel

NEW COUNTY HOTEL, 44, SOUTHGATE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1271761
Date first listed:
12-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:
New County Hotel
Statutory Address:
NEW COUNTY HOTEL, 44, SOUTHGATE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1271761
Date first listed:
12-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:
New County Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
NEW COUNTY HOTEL, 44, SOUTHGATE STREET

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NEW COUNTY HOTEL, 44, SOUTHGATE STREET

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 83052 18446

Details

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW SOUTHGATE STREET 844-1/12/265 (West side) 12/03/73 No.44 New County Hotel

GV II

Hotel. Rebuilt c1840 as the Ram Hotel on the site of the Ram Inn, completely remodelled internally in C20. Brick, stuccoed front with stone details, slate mansard roof with dormers above the front. A large block with entrance lobby to right, bar rooms and restaurant to left. EXTERIOR: three storeys, attic and cellar; the front of five bays with projecting band at first-floor level, string course at the sill level of the second-floor windows, crowning entablature stopped at either end by large moulded and carved brackets, and parapet with moulded capping heightened in the form of a shallow gable above the central bay. On the ground floor a C20 two-light window in each bay with, doorway to front bar replacing left-hand light of the central window, and doorway to lobby in the right-hand bay. The first floor treated as piano nobile: in each bay a pair of French doors with two-light fanlight is recessed in an opening framed by plain pilasters and entablature with moulded frieze and cornice supported by consoles, and very shallow pediment with carved tympanum above, and with a projecting sill with C20 guard railing replacing original wrought iron; on the second floor in each bay a plain sash in a slightly recessed, two-light opening with a central mullion; five dormers to attic, each with cornice supported on shaped end brackets, a shallow pedimental gable, and with a two-light casement. INTERIOR: C20 linings and features throughout; brick walled and vaulted cellar, probably c1840.





Listing NGR: SO8305218446

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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