THE UNION HOTEL

THE UNION HOTEL, CHAPEL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1143962
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:: THE UNION HOTEL
Statutory Address:: THE UNION HOTEL, CHAPEL STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1143962
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:: THE UNION HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: THE UNION HOTEL, CHAPEL STREET

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:: THE UNION HOTEL, CHAPEL STREET

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Penzance
National Grid Reference:: SW 47334 30204

Details

1. 1498 PENZANCE CHAPEL STREET (North East Side) The Union Hotel SW 4730 5/33 29.7.50.

II* GV

2. Early C19. Stucco. Ground floor plain, above flat Ionic pilasters, fluted. Eaves parapet, cornice, scrolled and decorated blocking course slightly pedimented. 3 storeys. 6 windows, 2 blocked, sill aprons to 2nd floor, sashes with glazing bars, ground floor in slight recesses. To right wide recessed doorway which was originally carriageway. Interior - Fine Assembly Room of 1791 the scene of first public announcement of victory at Trafalgar, large room of about 23 ft +. ; high, vaulted ceiling and dentilled cornice. Balustraded gallery with elliptical arch, fireplace with Tuscan columns, large semi-circular headed windows. Regency staircase. Art Nouveau bar at rear.

All listed buildings on the North East Side of Chapel Street form a group.

Listing NGR: SW4733430204

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Legacy System number:: 69474
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.