The Bolton Hotel

THE BOLTON HOTEL, BOLTON STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1218202
Date first listed:
18-Oct-1949
List Entry Name:
The Bolton Hotel
Statutory Address:
THE BOLTON HOTEL, BOLTON STREET
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1218202
Date first listed:
18-Oct-1949
Date of most recent amendment:
18-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:
The Bolton Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
THE BOLTON HOTEL, BOLTON STREET
Statutory Address 2:
THE BOLTON HOTEL, NEW ROAD

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE BOLTON HOTEL, BOLTON STREET
Statutory Address:
THE BOLTON HOTEL, NEW ROAD

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

District:
Torbay (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Brixham
National Grid Reference:
SX 92331 56004

Details

BRIXHAM

SX9256SW NEW ROAD, Lower Brixham 1946-1/10/193 (South side) 18/10/49 The Bolton Hotel (Formerly Listed as: BOLTON STREET Bolton Hotel)

GV II

Includes: The Bolton Hotel BOLTON STREET Lower Brixham. Hotel. Early/mid C19. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slated roof. 2 painted brick chimneys on rear wall. 3 storeys. 3-window front to New Road; 2-window return to Bolton Street with one window on the rounded corner. Main entrance is at left-hand end of New Road front; Doric porch with vase at each end of blocking-course, the pedestals of the vases decorated with wreaths; panelled reveals; fanlight with glazing bars forming zig-zag pattern. Late C19 half-glazed door to right of Bolton Street front has 3 raised and fielded panels at bottom; glazed upper panel has THE BOLTON HOTEL inscribed in frosted glass. Windows mostly have small-paned sashes with margin-panes: 6 over 6 panes in ground and second storeys, 3 over 6 panes in third storey, except that those on the rounded corner are 4 panes wide. The ground storey of the Bolton Street front differs in having a single wide window containing 2 pairs of plain sashes. Both this and the ground-storey window on the corner have C19 iron guard-rails decorated with quatrefoils and scrolls. Right-hand third-storey window to Bolton Street is blind. Moulded cornice above ground storey on both fronts. Second-storey windows have cornices on consoles. Deep plain eaves-cornice. INTERIOR partly inspected on ground and first floors. These seem much altered, but moulded cornices remain in parts of ground floor. Wooden dogleg staircase with column newels; balusters boxed in. Bolton Street entrance has inner porch with half-glazed partition similar to the entrance door, including the name of the hotel in frosted glass; egg-and-dart cornice. (Brixham Tithe Map and Apportionment: 1838-).

Listing NGR: SX9233156004

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
383698
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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