Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537790

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)