Grand Hotel
GRAND HOTEL, SWAINSON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250608
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Grand Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- GRAND HOTEL, SWAINSON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250608
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Grand Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRAND HOTEL, SWAINSON 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:
- GRAND HOTEL, SWAINSON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Hartlepool (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ5082332576
Details
HARTLEPOOL SWAINSON STREET
NZ 5032
(west side)
10/117 Grand Hotel (formerly
listed in Victoria
1.6.83 Road)
- II
Hotel. 1899 dated on plaque above Victoria Road entrance; by J. Garry. Red
engineering brick with rich, moulded terracotta dressings. Welsh slate roof
with wrought-iron crestings. Main entrance front 3 storeys, attic and
basement, 7 wide bays, most holding 2 windows. Central prostyle quasi-
Tuscan porch, with egg-and-dart mouldings, to round-arched doorway with
radial fanlight, deep terracotta voussoirs alternating with gauged brick and
mask key. Projecting window, with quadrant sides, above and paired windows
over, below terracotta and iron oriel balcony to paired windows in central
tower. Tower has tall near-pyramidal roof with octagonal glazed chamber and
flagstaff on top. Flanking bays are recessed and arcaded on first floor.
Bays 2 and 6 have 2-storey square projections. Some glazing modernised; all
windows in rich terracotta surrounds with mouldings and sculpture. First-
floor entablature with swag frieze. Second-floor cill string. Top
entablature with dentil cornice. Mansard roof with 12 square-headed
dormers, oculus above in end pavilions. Curved area wall with terracotta
balustrade. 7-bay return to Victoria Road in similar but plainer style,
also symmetrical with central entrance. Interior shows ornamental
plasterwork dated 1900, by F.W. Doyle Jones, over passage arches; and art
nouveau motifs on dado of staircase with large landing window of painted
glass.
Listing NGR: NZ5082332576
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432930
- 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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