The Grand Hotel
THE GRAND HOTEL, ST NICHOLAS CLIFF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1243163
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Grand Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE GRAND HOTEL, ST NICHOLAS CLIFF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1243163
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Grand Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GRAND HOTEL, ST NICHOLAS CLIFF
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 GRAND HOTEL, ST NICHOLAS CLIFF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Scarborough
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 04398 88403
Details
1. ST NICHOLAS CLIFF 1605 The Grand Hotel TA 0588 4/6A
II*
2. 1863-67. Architect Cuthbert Brodrick. Immense structure in red brick with tawny terracotta dressings, 4 storeys, basement, and storey at eaves cornice level, and 2 storey attic. 3-6+3-6 3 windows, the ends slightly projecting. Rusticated basement. Round headed windows to ground and 1st floors, the latter with continuous iron railed balcony on large console brackets. Ornamental cornice across over 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor windows, the latter windows with segmental heads. The top floor windows are between huge projecting upright console brackets supporting the eaves. The ends of the roof have tall slim 2 storey domes rising from a brick and terracotta attic storey. Dormer windows rising from front wall with terracotta pediments and ball finials. Round headed dormer windows above this. Slates. The centre of the elevation has a 3 bay arched porch with paired composite columns in antis. Tripartite windows on each floor above this and an elaborate pedimented gable with window above the eaves. Narrow end of building towards the sea has large bowed end with quasi-domed and dormered roof between the domed end towers. Sea front 3-13-3 windows. Same design as front but no central feature. Fully exposed 3 storey basement, (later?) full length of building with elaborate architectural treatment rising to a cornice. Above this a modern storey in glass. Interior has fine staircase. See "Architecture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" by H R Hitchcock (1958).
Listing NGR: TA0439888403
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 446711
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hitchcock, H R, Architecture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, (1958)
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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