The Ram - Wandsworth High Street, London, UK
N 51° 27.412 W 000° 11.567
30U E 695023 N 5704370
This building was built as The Ram Inn in 1883 as the brewery tap for the Youngs Ram Brewery that stood behind it. The building is now The Ram Brewery Shop and Visitors Centre. The original sign is still located at the corner of the building.
Waymark Code: WMJMN0
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/05/2013
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The sign is over what would have been the entrance to the
pub at the corner of the building. It has a predominantly white background with
some "grass" and "flowers" along the bottom and in the lower right corner.
Standing on the grass and facing right is a ram. It's body is mainly white with
some brown patches and brown horns and tail. White is a strange choise of colour
as the ram blends into the background! Above the ram is the year "1883" that the
pub was built. Above the year is "The Ram" in relief. Again an odd choice of
colour, black, as the name also blends into the scroll background.
The building is Grade II listed with the entry at the
English Heritage website telling us:
Public house, now also shop. 1883
with 1930s remodelling, for Young's Ram Brewery, formerly known as the Ram
Inn. Yellow brick with plaster details, and glazed terra cotta ground floor.
2-3 storeys.
EXTERIOR: Curved wider bay to corner of Wandsworth High and Ram Street, with
4 window bays to each return at 2nd floor, additional 3-5 bays at 1st and
ground floors with carriage entrance to north end at Ram Street and
additional wide entrance to west end at Wandsworth High Street. Ground floor
is 1930s glazed cream terra cotta; pilasters with flat ionic capitals
defined each wide window bay; upper floors of 1883 build, the 1st floor
windows within plastered architraves and under shallow scrolled pediments
linked by continuous frieze, 2nd floor with shorter sashes also in plastered
architraves and abutting corbelled eaves cornice. Corner bay with 'THE RAM
INN' green lettering to frieze and flanked by glazed plaques with Ram detail
under segmental arch and `Young & Co.'s Ales & Stout' over `Public Bar',
entrance now blocked; slightly advanced upper storeys with pediment over 1st
floor window; corbelled base of chimney to 2nd floor extending above shallow
hipped roof. Entrances each to High Street and Ram Street flanked by similar
terra cotta plaques.
INTERIOR: Ground floor retains beamed plaster ceilings. 1st floor has good
neo-Elizabethan room with wood-panelled walls and honeycomb pattern plaster
ceiling with foliate decoration; wide stone chimneypiece.
HISTORY: In 1831, Young & Bainbridge bought the Ram brewery from Tritton,
who had owned the freehold for this site since the C19. The earlier pub on
the site, the Ram, was replaced with this building after the major 1881 fire
at the brewery damaged the earlier Ram Inn, believed to have dated from the
late-C17. This was again damaged in WWII. The pub was called the Ram until
being re-named the Brewery Tap in 1974.
Listed as a handsome corner pub of 1883 with an 1930s remodelling including
historicist interiors and that has particular interest as the brewery tap
for the Young's brewery, as well as group value with the other listed
components on the site.