Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NE OXFORD STREET
844-1/9/231 (East side)
12/03/73 No.22
The Victoria Inn
(Formerly Listed as:
OXFORD STREET
(East side)
Nos.2 TO 22 (Even))

GV II

Public house. 1823-5. Part of the development of Oxford Street
for John Bowyer, attorney. Roughcast render on brick, stone
details, slate roof. A block at the corner where Oxford Street
turns to the north-east and built in conjunction with the
terrace of houses, Nos 2-20, Oxford Street (qv) at the
northern end of the terrace.
EXTERIOR: three storeys and cellar; the west and north fronts
with offset plinth, first-floor string course, a crowning
string course and parapet; a moulded crowning cornice similar
to that on the adjoining terrace has been removed; raised
stone quoins at the north-west corner.
On the west front the ground floor has principal entrance to
left in a wide opening with moulded architrave frame and a
raised keystone in the lintel; the doorway in a timber frame
has flanking sidelights with margin glazing and rectangular
transom lights with glazing bars forming a diamond pattern; to
right of doorway, in the original opening with similar
architrave, is a C20 window with side-hung lights above the
transom; on the first floor three tall horned sashes and on
the second floor three short horned sashes, all with glazing
bars (first floor 3x4 panes, second floor 3x3 panes); central
above the entrance doorway, on the first floor, a decoratively
shaped sign panel inscribed "BANKS/THE VICTORIA INN"; on the
north-west front the ground floor has two windows with details
identical with ground-floor window on the west front and to
the left a doorway with fanlight in a similar architrave
frame; on the first floor two sashes and on the second floor
two sashes, with details identical with sashes on the west
front; on the first floor between the sashes a panel matching
the panel on the west front.
INTERIOR: no features of interest to ground floor, otherwise
not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8368118888

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538183

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)