ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL, RETAINING WALL AND APPROACH RAMP

ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL, RETAINING WALL AND APPROACH RAMP, VICTORIA ROAD STATION

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247498
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL, RETAINING WALL AND APPROACH RAMP
Statutory Address:: ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL, RETAINING WALL AND APPROACH RAMP, VICTORIA ROAD STATION

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247498
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL, RETAINING WALL AND APPROACH RAMP
Statutory Address 1:: ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL, RETAINING WALL AND APPROACH RAMP, VICTORIA ROAD STATION

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:: ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL, RETAINING WALL AND APPROACH RAMP, VICTORIA ROAD STATION

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

District:: Sheffield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 36022 87936

Details

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE VICTORIA STATION ROAD 784-1/6/733 Royal Victoria Hotel, retaining wall and approach ramp

GV II

Former station hotel, retaining wall and approach ramp. Approach ramp 1848. Hotel 1861 and late C19, restored c1990. By ME Hadfield. Hotel, brick with painted ashlar dressings and hipped artificial slate roofs with 7 coped rusticated ridge stacks. Retaining wall and approach ramp, coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings. EXTERIOR: plinth, first floor band, third floor sillband, modillion eaves. 4 storeys; 9 window range. Windows are mainly plain sashes, those to the ground floor segment-headed, those to the third floor smaller. Projecting central entrance bay has windows with moulded surrounds and is topped with a gable containing a segmental pediment and roundel. First floor window has a segmental pediment and keystone. Round-arched doorway has small triangular pediment. On either side, recessed bays with 2 windows on each floor, the ground floor ones with keystones. Beyond, on either side, hipped projecting bays with 2 windows on each floor, the first floor ones with segmental pediments. All these windows have projecting surrounds. Right bay has on the ground floor a canted bay window with 3 sashes. Left return has a recessed centre, 3 storeys plus basement and attics; 5 window range. Rusticated basement. Right wing has 3 windows on each floor, all with projecting surrounds. Left wing, 4 storeys, has a single central window on the upper floors, and 3 on the ground floor. INTERIOR has entrance hall flanked by reception desk and lounge, with enriched cornices and arches and panelled ceiling. Lobby has plaster wall panels divided by Ionic pilasters and coved reticulated ceiling with boss. Main lounge has similar panelling and pilasters, heavily enriched modillion cornice, and reticulated coved ceiling with rooflight. Adjoining room, in similar style, has 3-bay reticulated ceiling with roundels. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outside, cast-iron spiked railing on plinth. Retaining wall with string course, chamfered coping and pilaster buttresses, topped with a railing at the side of the hotel. Approach ramp, of similar design, is carried on 10 round arches.

Listing NGR: SK3602287936

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Legacy System number:: 456944
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.