Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561582

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