Survey Data
Reg No
20514264
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Office
In Use As
Hotel
Date
1800 - 1830
Coordinates
167688, 71712
Date Recorded
06/08/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced nine-bay four-storey neo-classical Exchange Building with five-bay breakfront, c. 1815; formerly commercial buildings, now in use as hotel. Roof not visible for inspection, rendered chimney stacks. Painted render finish, Ionic giant order pilasters to breakfront supporting entablature, rusticated ground floor and render quoins, square headed openings to first, second and third floors, with square and round headed openings to ground floor, canopied entrance porch, replacement uPVC windows throughout, c. 1990, and breakfront openings altered; street frontage, on corner site at junction with Pembroke Street.
Appraisal
The present main façade and entrance to the Imperial Hotel was originally in use as commercial buildings on South Mall. This section was combined with the original Pembroke street part of the hotel, attributed to Sir Thomas Deane, to form the present complex.