GRAND HOTEL

GRAND HOTEL, SOUTH CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218326
Date first listed:: 23-May-1994
List Entry Name:: GRAND HOTEL
Statutory Address:: GRAND HOTEL, SOUTH CHURCH ROAD

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Date:: 2001-04-13
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218326
Date first listed:: 23-May-1994
List Entry Name:: GRAND HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: GRAND HOTEL, SOUTH CHURCH ROAD

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:: GRAND HOTEL, SOUTH CHURCH ROAD

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bishop Auckland
National Grid Reference:: NZ 21338 29057

Details

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ22NW SOUTH CHURCH ROAD 634-1/5/117 (East side) Grand Hotel

II

Public house. Dated 1901. Brick with painted ashlar ground floor and faience and ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys and stone or stone composition dressings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3x3 windows. Bar front has 3 elliptical moulded faience arches on rusticated jambs, central arch open with internal steps up to canted doors in half-glazed screen. Flanking arches have panelled stallrisers to windows with transom and 3 arched lights. Pilasters of Composite order flanking arches rise through full-width fascia and have segmental finials. Fascia has low relief GRAND HOTEL in side panels and elaborate emblem in centre with date 1901. Low relief dragons in spandrels of arches. Segmental-headed 2-light windows above, paired in central bay under half-timbered gable with 2-light casement. Right canted corner bay has blocked double doors below leafy carved bracket to round corner turret. Turret tapered, with mullioned windows below half-timbered top stage with low-pitched ogee dome and tall spike finial. Steeply pitched roof has swept eaves, dormer set at left with straight head and casements with glazing bars, and corniced ridge and rear chimneys. Right return in similar style.

Listing NGR: NZ2133829057

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Legacy System number:: 385749
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.