Royal Pier Hotel
ROYAL PIER HOTEL, MARINE PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271523
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Pier Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL PIER HOTEL, MARINE PARADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271523
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Pier Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL PIER HOTEL, 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 PIER HOTEL, MARINE PARADE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Clevedon
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 40212 71908
Details
CLEVEDON
749/0/10008 MARINE PARADE
01-JUN-01 Royal Pier Hotel
GV II
Hotel, now public house. 1869 remodelling by Hans Price; extended circa 1890s. Rock-faced snecked stone with freestone dressings. Steeply-pitched slate hipped and gabled roof, the original iron ridge cresting is missing. Axial and gable-end stacks with stone and rendered shafts.
PLAN: A long range, designed in two distinct parts; built into cliff with entrance at higher level on landward east front and lower seaward elevation at rear [W] with projecting circa 1890s bar extension on right [SW].
Victorian Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and basement. Asymmetrical 3:3:1:2:1 bay east front; depressed 2-centred arch windows with alternating rusticated voussoirs, quoins and 4-pane sashes; on left canted bay with steeply-pitched hipped roof, stone frieze below eaves inscribed ROCK HOUSE HOTEL and projecting porch and integral bay with shouldered head doorway and windows; 2-storey gabled porch at centre, left bay set back with corbelled gabled oriel in the angle; small gables and triangular dormers. Left [S] return has similar depressed 2-centred arch windows and chimney breast with integral corbelled gable with stack above. Rear [W] elevation facing sea has basement level, circa 1890s bar extension projecting on right, two gables with arch-braced bargeboards, three steeply-pitched gabled dormers and similar depressed 2-centred arch windows.
INTERIOR retains some C19 joinery, including open-well staircase with turned balusters and moulded mahogany handrail, and bar with panelled front to counter, panelled doors and moulded elliptical arches.
NOTE: The Pier, its tollhouse and The Royal Pier Hotel were built in 1869, the hotel to provide refreshments and accommodation for visitors brought by steamers who disembarked at the pier. The hotel is a remodelling of the earlier Rock House Hotel which existed in the 1820s.
Listing NGR: ST4021071902
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487629
- 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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