Imperial Hotel
IMPERIAL HOTEL, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240819
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Imperial Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- IMPERIAL HOTEL, FRONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240819
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Imperial Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- IMPERIAL HOTEL, FRONT 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:
- IMPERIAL HOTEL, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanley
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 19348 52769
Details
NZ 15 SE STANLEY FRONT STREET (North side) Stanley 7/165 Imperial Hotel II Hotel, now offices. Circa 1905. Brick with polychrome terracotta and glazed tile dressings; ground floor painted; graduated Lakeland slate roof with terracotta gable copings and wood corner turret. Baroque style. 2 storeys, 5 bays, with canted left corner bay and one-bay left return. Flushed doors and overlights, in central and fifth bays, under pediments; circa 1980 hood added over main door. Ground-floor bays defined by pilasters, paired between 3-light mullioned-and-transomed windows, supporting entablature; 2-storey canted fourth bay. First floor has Art Nouveau IMPERIAL HOTEL in central panel; moulded aproned surrounds and alternate-block jambs to paired sashes in other bays. Top cornice. Mansard roof has 4 gabled dormers containing paired sashes with upper glazing bars; wide, moulded kneelers; 3 tall ridge chimneys on plinths. Corner bay has 6-panel double door and overlight under half-octagonal terra-cotta oriel with panelled entablature below slate coping; panelled octagonal clock turret, dome lost.
Listing NGR: NZ1934852769
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439371
- 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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