ROYAL BATH HOTEL

Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1108883
Date first listed:
01-Aug-1974
Statutory Address:
ROYAL BATH HOTEL, BATH ROAD

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Location

Statutory Address:
ROYAL BATH HOTEL, BATH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Bournemouth (Unitary Authority)
National Grid Reference:
SZ 09090 90887

Details

1. BATH ROAD 5l86 (East Side) Royal Bath Hotel SZ 099O 19/168 1.8.74.

II

2. 1837-8, Benjamin Ferrey for Sir George Tapps-Gervis, vastly extended 1878-80 by C C Creeke for hotelier Sir Merton Russell-Cotes. Stucco classical, 2 and 3 storeys, varied silhouette. Ferrey's hotel survives in main entrance wing at south end: composition of centre and wings is his, with tripartite 1st floor window framed by Ionic columns. Creeke added 2nd floor to centre, with Corinthian columns, also projecting corner pavilions with canted bays and recessed chateau roofs of patterned slate (iron cresting). Garden side also symmetrical with central bow under conical roof, conservatory across front. To north, street front has facade, 5 windows wide, in Barry-Italianate: rusticated ground floor, triangular pediments to lst floor windows, segmental pediments to 2nd floor windows, balustraded parapet. Beyond it, Buttery entrance under narrow segmental pediment between canted bays, followed by long 2-storey Casino Club, with 3 spired tourelles, patterned slates, moulded corbel- bases. On garden side big later extension with another conical-roofed bow between polygonal towers with short spires. Recent block to north-east. For Russell-Cotes Museum, see Russell-Cotes Road.

Listing NGR: SZ0909090887

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
101705
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.

End of official listing

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Date: 05 Sep 2001
Reference: IOE01/04847/02
Rights: Copyright IoE Mr Trevor Fenwick. Source Historic England Archive
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