The Ram Inn

The Ram Inn, 68, Wandsworth High Street, SW18 4LB

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391087
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-2004
List Entry Name:: The Ram Inn
Statutory Address:: The Ram Inn, 68, Wandsworth High Street, SW18 4LB

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391087
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-2004
List Entry Name:: The Ram Inn
Statutory Address 1:: The Ram Inn, 68, Wandsworth High Street, SW18 4LB

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: The Ram Inn, 68, Wandsworth High Street, SW18 4LB

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Wandsworth (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 25649 74657

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 October 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

1207/0/10139

WANDSWORTH HIGH STREET No. 68 (The Ram Inn)

(Formerly listed as RAM STREET The Brewery Tap WANDSWORTH HIGH STREET The Brewery Tap)

20-SEP-04

GV II

Public house, now also shop. 1883 with 1930s remodelling, for Young's Ram Brewery, formerly known as the Ram Inn. Yellow brick with plaster details, and glazed terra cotta ground floor. Two-three storeys.

EXTERIOR: Curved wider bay to corner of Wandsworth High and Ram Street, with four window bays to each return at second floor, additional three-five bays at first and ground floors with carriage entrance to north end at Ram Street and additional wide entrance to west end at Wandsworth High Street. Ground floor is 1930s glazed cream terra cotta; pilasters with flat ionic capitals defined each wide window bay; upper floors of 1883 build, the first floor windows within plastered architraves and under shallow scrolled pediments linked by continuous frieze, second floor with shorter sashes also in plastered architraves and abutting corbelled eaves cornice. Corner bay with 'THE RAM INN' green lettering to frieze and flanked by glazed plaques with Ram detail under segmental arch and `Young & Co.'s Ales & Stout' over `Public Bar', entrance now blocked; slightly advanced upper storeys with pediment over first floor window; corbelled base of chimney to second floor extending above shallow hipped roof. Entrances each to High Street and Ram Street flanked by similar terra cotta plaques.

INTERIOR: Ground floor retains beamed plaster ceilings. First floor has good neo-Elizabethan room with wood-panelled walls and honeycomb pattern plaster ceiling with foliate decoration; wide stone chimneypiece.

HISTORY: In 1831, Young & Bainbridge bought the Ram brewery from Tritton, who had owned the freehold for this site since the C19. The earlier pub on the site, the Ram, was replaced with this building after the major 1881 fire at the brewery damaged the earlier Ram Inn, believed to have dated from the late-C17. This was again damaged in WWII. The pub was called the Ram until being re-named the Brewery Tap in 1974. See list entry for the Grade II* Brewery for a fuller history.

SOURCES: Helen Osborn 'Britain's Oldest Brewery: The story behind the success of Young's of Wandsworth' (1999) and Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner, 'Buildings of England London: South' (1983, 1994)

Listed as a handsome corner pub of 1883 with an 1930s remodelling including historicist interiors and that has particular interest as the brewery tap for the Young's brewery, as well as group value with the other listed components on the site.

Group value with the other listed components of the site: the Grade II* Brewery, Grade II former Brewer's House and the Grade II stables; as well as the Grade II late-C19 `Spread Eagle' public houses also across Wandsworth High Street.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 491929
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cherry, B, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: London 2: South, (1983)
Osborn, H, Britain's Oldest Brewery: The story behind the success of Young's of Wandsworth, (1999)

Legal

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