Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW SOUTHGATE STREET
844-1/12/270 (West side)
12/03/73 Nos.68 AND 70
The Black Swan Hotel
(Formerly Listed as:
SOUTHGATE STREET
(West side)
Nos.68 AND 70
The Yeoman Hotel)

GV II

Hotel. 1849-50. By Hamilton and Medland, on the north-west
side of the intersection of Southgate Street with Commercial
Road formed 1848. Ashlar, brick, slate mansard roof with
dormers, ashlar stacks. A range of five bays with curved
frontage facing the street intersection; a further three bays
which extended the range further along Commercial Road
demolished c1965 and rebuilt 1993.
EXTERIOR: three storeys, attic and cellar. Symmetrical
Italianate street facade, faced in ashlar, of three bays
flanked by wider, slightly projecting end bays (1:3:1); the
ground floor, with banded rustication and with vermiculated
quoins to the angles of the end bays, capped by a band at
first-floor level; at first floor a moulded string course at
window-sill level, and a crowning entablature with decorated
frieze and modillion cornice and with a pediment above each of
the end bays.
On the ground floor in the central bay a former semicircular
arched doorway blocked by a later window is framed by
pilasters and a shallow canopy above supported on consoles; in
each end bay a wide doorway with segmental-arched head
containing a panelled door in a timber frame with side and top
lights and the upper panels of the doors glazed; sashes in the
second and fourth bays in recessed openings with segmental
arched heads; all the segmental-arches with rusticated
voussoirs set with raised keystones carved with portrait
heads; on the first floor each end bay has a tripartite window
with a central sash flanked by very narrow side sashes in
openings framed by plain pilasters, entablature and pediment
supported on consoles, in the three central bays sashes in
openings framed by moulded architraves and entablatures; on
the second floor a tripartite window in each end bay with
sashes in openings framed by eared architraves and projecting
sills supported on small moulded brackets; in the three
central bays single sashes in openings with similar frames;

the sashes on both floors with single vertical glazing bars;
in the tympanum of the pediment above each end bay a lunette
window; two roof dormers with segmental roofs and casements
with glazing bars. Three ashlar stacks with moulded cornices
and ceramic chimney pots.
The rear elevation in brick; on the ground floor to right a
canted bay window with narrow sidelights and sashes with
glazing bars; to left lighting the stair well a tall arched
sash with glazing bars (3x10) panes; on upper floors other
sashes with glazing bars.
INTERIOR: believed to be completely refitted and without
visible features of interest.

Listing NGR: SO8300518392

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561676

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