The Old Crown - Westgate Street, Gloucester

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The Old Crown pub in Gloucester.

Grade II listed building in two parts.

Old Crown Inn (West Side), Gloucester

GLOUCESTER

SO8218NE WESTGATE STREET
844-1/7/414 (South side)
23/01/52 No.83
Old Crown Inn (west side)
(Formerly Listed as:
WESTGATE STREET
(South side)
No.83)

GV II

Town house. Early to mid C18; in C19 a shop and dwelling;
altered and remodelled internally 1989-90, in conjunction with
No.81 Westgate Street (qv) for conversion to public house.
Brick with stone details, slate roof. Double-depth block with
wing to rear.
EXTERIOR: three storeys, cellar and attic; on the front raised
and chamfered quoins at each corner, crowning entablature with
returned ends and shallow gable, formerly a crowning pediment.
On the ground floor the former C19 shop-front replaced by
three late C20 sashes above plain aprons with the doorway to
right, all framed by C19 pilasters with a bracket at each end
of fascia; on the first floor two sashes with segmental heads
and glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings with stone Gibbs
surrounds, segmental-arched heads with raised, triple-facet
keystones, and projecting, moulded stone sills; on the second
floor two sashes with segmental heads and glazing bars (4x3
panes) in openings with moulded stone architraves,
segmental-arched heads with raised triple-facet keystones and
projecting, moulded stone sills above stone aprons; in the
gable an oculus with cross glazing bars in a keyed stone
frame.
INTERIOR: no visible features of interest.

Listing NGR: SO8292118736

Old Crown Inn (East Side), Gloucester

GLOUCESTER

SO8218NE WESTGATE STREET
844-1/7/412 (South side)
12/03/73 No.81
Old Crown Inn (east side)
(Formerly Listed as:
WESTGATE STREET
(South side)
No.81)

GV II

Shop and dwelling, now part of public house. Early C19,
altered and remodelled internally 1989-90, in conjunction with
No.83 Westgate Street (qv), for conversion to public house.
Painted brick front block and brick wing, hipped slate roofs,
brick stack. Double-depth blockon corner of Upper Quay Street;
now entered through No.83 Westgate Street (qv); and a rear
wing, probably the conversion of a former early C19 house in
Upper Quay Street.
EXTERIOR: three storeys and cellar; stone coped parapets; on
the front the ground floor remodelled 1990, on each of the
upper floors two sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in
openings with flat-arched heads of five raised-and-stepped
stone voussoirs; on the east side of the front block on the
ground floor the return of the remodelled front to right, and
a sash to left; on each of the upper floors two widely-spaced
sashes, all with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings with
projecting stone sills. The front of the lower wing at rear,
facing Upper Quay Street, on the ground floor has a doorway to
left with rectangular fanlight in a timber frame of pilasters
and entablature, and on each upper floor two sashes with
glazing bars (3x4 panes), all in openings with rubbed brick
flat arches and projecting stone sills.
INTERIOR: no visible features of interest.

Listing NGR: SO8292518732

This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.

Source: English Heritage

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Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Gloucester / The Docks (show map)

Taken on: August 9, 2014

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