The Royal Britannia Hotel
THE ROYAL BRITANNIA HOTEL, BROAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203056
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Royal Britannia Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROYAL BRITANNIA HOTEL, BROAD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203056
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Royal Britannia Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROYAL BRITANNIA HOTEL, BROAD STREET
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:
- THE ROYAL BRITANNIA HOTEL, BROAD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilfracombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 52323 47827
Details
ILFRACOMBE
SS5247 BROAD STREET 853-1/7/24 (East side) 15/06/51 The Royal Britannia Hotel
GV II
Hotel and public house. Probably late C18 with later additions and alterations. MATERIALS: stucco, chanelled at ground floor to appear as ashlar; quoining to left-hand only. PLAN: rectangular corner block with elevations to Broad Street, The Quay and the harbour. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellars. Main, Broad Street, elevation of 6 windows; 3 to right in slightly projecting later addition. Main entrance central in older block with porch on later brackets and part-glazed doors. 2-pane sashes to ground floor; upper floors 12-pane unhorned sashes. Parapet. Above porch to left and right, reliefs of Royal Arms flanking a good iron lamp bracket. Projecting block with early C19 timber shopfront of pilasters supporting entablature with box cornice; plain panelled double doors and 2 windows. 4-pane sashes to upper floors. Elevation to The Quay with four 12-pane hornless sashes and altered and renewed door, originally Tuscan with frieze and cornice but now only pilasters and panelled soffit of canopy used to form a cornice. Harbour elevation with three 3-storey bows having 3-light unhorned sashes; blind windows between bows on upper storeys. To left, a Tuscan doorcase with C20 double doors. INTERIOR altered at ground floor level but retains some original features; upper floors not inspected. This building is a prominent and important feature of the harbour. The Royal Britannia Hotel, Nos. 3 & 4, and 8-12 (consec) form a group with Nos. 1 & 2 The Strand.
Listing NGR: SS5232347827
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390164
- 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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