CROFT SPA HOTEL

CROFT SPA HOTEL, A167

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1179487
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: CROFT SPA HOTEL
Statutory Address:: CROFT SPA HOTEL, A167

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1179487
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: CROFT SPA HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: CROFT SPA HOTEL, A167

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CROFT SPA HOTEL, A167

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District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Croft-on-Tees
National Grid Reference:: NZ 28857 09770

Details

NZ 2809-2909 10/29

CROFT-ON-TEES A 167 (west side) Croft Spa Hotel

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Hotel. 1835. By Ignatius Bonomi for Sir William Chaytor. Roughcast, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys. Irregular plan. Main range of 2:3:2:1 bays, with 4-bay ballroom range added probably c1860 to left, and 6-bay coach-house to right. Main range: "central" 3 bays project slightly, with coped gable treated as pediment; the side bays successively recessed. Central 6-panel door below fanlight, with timber porch of square Tuscan columns with exaggerated entasis, the flat roof forming balcony to first-floor French window above, with pedimented doorcase which breaks into the band forming effect of pediment, and has blind oculus in tympanum. 16-pane sash windows with ashlar sills. First-floor band. Stacks between second and third, fifth and sixth, seventh and eighth bays. To left: ballroom range is taller and with deep ground floor; to right, 4-panel door in pedimented Tuscan doorcase; 15-pane sash windows on ground floor, 9-pane unequally hung sashes on first floor. Ashlar coping. Stack at right end. To right: coach-house is lower; segmental-arched openings on ground floor, with board doors except in sixth where blocked, and with blocked doorway between fifth and sixth bays; side-sliding sash windows on first floor; C20 clay pantile roof, hipped to right. Interior: the dining room, which projects to the rear, has a decorative plaster ceiling. The hotel is a relic of the heyday of Croft Spa preserved in its original condition. The sulpherous mineral waters of Croft were first noticed early in the C17, and the first bath was erected in 1688. By 1713 the waters were being sold in London in sealed bottles at high prices. The first hotel was built in 1808. A new suite of baths was built c1815 at the Old Spa (qv) by Sir William Chaytor, followed c1827 by the New Spa (qv), which had hot and cold baths. The coming of the railway brought more visitors, and the station was called Croft Spa Station. To accommodate visitors to the "Wells", a large number of lodging houses were built. T Bulmer, History, Topography and Directory of North Yorkshire, (1890), p 414; H Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), p 123; T A Littleton, "Cure-All?", an article on Croft Spa published in Richmond and District Civic Society Annual Report (1982), pp 25-27; VCH i, p 163; W White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire (1840), p 414.

Listing NGR: NZ2885709770

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Sources

Books and journals
Bulmer, T, History Topography and Directory of North Yorkshire, (1890), 414
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 123
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 163
'Whites Directory' in History Gazetteer and Directory of the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire, (1840), 414
'Richmond and District Civic Society Annual Report' in Annual Report, (1982), 25-27

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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.