ROYAL BATH HOTEL

ROYAL BATH HOTEL, BATH ROAD

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

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1108883
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:: ROYAL BATH HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: ROYAL BATH HOTEL, BATH ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SZ 09090 90887

Details

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

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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

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Legacy System number:: 101705
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.