Queen's Hotel
Queen's Hotel, Park Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135418
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Queen's Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- Queen's Hotel, Park Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135418
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Queen's Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- Queen's Hotel, Park Road
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:
- Queen's Hotel, Park Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 45051 22028
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 September 2021 to reformat text to current standards
SE 45 SE
3/50
PONTEFRACT
PARK ROAD (south-west side)
Queen's Hotel
15.1.76
GV
II
Hotel. 1898-1901. For Pickersgills' Brewery of Pontefract. Red brick in English bond with yellow terracotta dressings and Westmorland slate roofs. Three storeys with cellar and attics, 1:3:1:3:1 bays. End bays project as canted turrets, and centre bay forms canted projection. Plinth. Ground floor: all of terracotta; in fourth and sixth bays, round-arched openings with recessed leaved panelled doors below fanlights with Art Nouveau glazing; second, third, seventh, eighth bays have round-arched windows with etched plate glass below transom, all round-arched openings having raised keystones and alternate voussoirs; windows have sill bands and imposts which line through with the straight-headed windows in canted bays, which have transoms and joggled voussoirs to lintels, also cornices above.
First floor: end and centre canted bays as on ground floor, except with balcony and pediment in centre; other bays have cemented apron where balconies originally were which rested on existing corbels; cross windows with sashes; cornice. Second floor: in each bay, paired round-arched sash windows, except for single sashes with keystones to outer turrets, and flat-headed windows to centre canted bay. End turrets have spirelets; centrepiece has Dutch gable with three round-arched sash windows, in front of pyramidal roof with railings around apex. Steep roof to main range has two dormer windows, above parapet with hotel name. Corniced multiple-flue stacks to ends and on ridge to right of centre purlins. Rear: much plainer and of irregular plan. Left return: 1:2 bays. Right return: three bays similar to front.
Interior: the period fittings survive alomost intact, and there is a staircase with good cast-iron balusters. Built to accommodate patrons of Pontefract Racecourse who arrived at the nearby Tanshelf railway station, now demolished.
Listing NGR: SE4505122028
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342689
- 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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