Survey Data
Reg No
22108095
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Hotel
In Use As
Hotel
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
189326, 135798
Date Recorded
23/05/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced hotel, comprising four-bay three-storey house, built c. 1800, with recessed one-bay three-storey addition to west, and two-bay three-storey former house with late twentieth-century pubfront to east. Pitched roofs with felt covering to main block, slate to other blocks, rendered chimneystacks and eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls with painted render plinth to main block. Square-headed window openings throughout, with stone sills. Timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows to lower floors of main block, replacement uPVC elsewhere. Round-headed entrance opening having timber canopy with moulded cornice and dentils and supported by fluted Ionic columns. Glazed timber double-leaf entrance door with sidelights and cobweb fanlight, accessed by limestone steps and flanked by wrought-iron railings and pair of cast-iron lamp bases c. 1860 with late twentieth-century heads. Low painted rendered boundary wall to façade with late twentieth-century tubular steel railings and tiled pavement.
Appraisal
This house was established as a hotel in the mid-nineteenth century and its continuing use as such contributes to its significance. The classically-proportioned façade and the features of the entrance group are of interest, particularly the retention of the cast-iron lamp standards. The carpark opposite the front of the hotel was once its formal garden which indicates the former grandeur of this hotel.