Survey Data
Reg No
11814077
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Previous Name
The Royal Hotel
Original Use
Hotel
In Use As
Public house
Date
1850 - 1870
Coordinates
289257, 219209
Date Recorded
21/05/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced five-bay three-storey building, c.1860, possibly originally an hotel. Renovated, c.1900, with ground floor remodelled to accommodate commercial use. Renovated and refenestrated, c.1990. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Rendered coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Ruled and lined. Painted. Rendered dressings including quoins to corners. Granite ashlar front, c.1900, to ground floor. Replacement timber fascia, c.1990, over with segmental-headed consoles and moulded cornice. Square-headed openings (remodelled, c.1900, to ground floor). Stone sills to upper floors. Moulded rendered surrounds. Replacement 1/1 uPVC casement windows. Cut-granite sills to ground floor. Replacement fixed pane (tripartite) timber display windows, c.1990. Replacement timber panelled and glazed timber panelled doors, c.1990. Overlights. Road fronted. Concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
This building, which may originally have been built as an hotel, is a fine and balanced structure that retains most of its original form to the upper floors, forming an attractive feature on the streetscape of Main Street South. Remodelled in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century with a replacement frontage inserted to the ground floor, the alterations have become part of the historic fabric of the building and are an attractive feature on the street level. Many of the original features and materials have been removed in the late twentieth century, and the replacement fenestration is not a positive aspect of the building – the re-instatement of timber fenestration might restore a more accurate representation of the original appearance of the building. Soaring above the surrounding buildings in the terrace, the high roofline of the building emphasises its position on the street while the building is also of importance for continuing the established streetline of Main Street South.