Royal Hotel
ROYAL HOTEL, 4, MARINE PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246584
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL HOTEL, 4, MARINE PARADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246584
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL HOTEL, 4, MARINE PARADE
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:
- ROYAL HOTEL, 4, MARINE PARADE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Great Yarmouth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TG5307006925
Details
GREAT YARMOUTH
TG5306NW MARINE PARADE
839-1/20/91 (West side)
05/08/74 No.4
Royal Hotel
GV II
Hotel. Opened in 1840, facade and large rear extensions 1877
by JB Pearce. Stuccoed red brick. Slate roof.
EXTERIOR: facade in 4 storeys. Five 3-storey canted window
bays and an additional bay to right. French doors to ground
floor. In centre is a rusticated square entrance porch with a
pulvinated frieze and a plain cornice. First-floor bay windows
with cast-iron balcony railings on scrolled and pierced
brackets. French windows. Second and third floors with
replaced sashes without glazing bars. Entrance bay with a
crowning achievement. Modillion eaves cornice below a hipped
roof. Stacks on rear and side slopes. Rear wing extends west
along Waterloo Road. 6 full-height canted bays and a
rusticated central entrance, now blocked. 2/2 ground-floor
unhorned sashes, but all above are late C20 windows.
INTERIOR: large internal courtyard created when rear ranges
added, absorbing a formerly external winter garden. Of this
the cast-iron columns with pierced spandrels remain abutting
the former rear wall of the 1840 building, all now internal.
Open-well staircase with turned balusters and newels. Ball
finials.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Charles Dickens stayed here 1848-9 while
writing David Copperfield and met James Sharman (the keeper of
the Nelson's Column) on whom he supposedly based the character
of Ham Peggotty.
Listing NGR: TG5307006925
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468539
- 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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