Royal Clarence Hotel
ROYAL CLARENCE HOTEL, CATHEDRAL YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104027
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Clarence Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL CLARENCE HOTEL, CATHEDRAL YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104027
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Clarence Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL CLARENCE HOTEL, CATHEDRAL YARD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL CLARENCE HOTEL, CATHEDRAL YARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Exeter (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 92071 92649
Details
CATHEDRAL YARD 1. 1092 Royal Clarence Hotel SX 9292 NW 3/412 29.1.53. II GV 2. Said to have been built to provide Assembly Rooms for the City by Wm Mackworth Praed, circa 1768. Original 4 storey, 6 window stucco front has been considerably altered, bays added, glazing bars removed etc, in 1827. Large porte-cochere partly hides Tuscan porch. Dentil cornice. Adjoining and now part of the hotel is a 3 storey, 3 window C18 building, formerly the Exeter Bank. Semi-circular 3-light attic window. The remains of a central porch are still visible, but the front has been altered with late C19 iron balconies etc. Slate roofs. Part of Hotel facing Martin's Lane C18. Timber-framed, rendered and painted. 4 storeys, sash windows, mostly modern, Slate roof. Included for group value. All the listed buildings of Cathedral Yard and Nos 1 and 2 Deanery Place form a group.
Listing NGR: SX9207092657
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88937
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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