The Royal Hotel
THE ROYAL HOTEL, ST NICHOLAS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273024
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Royal Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROYAL HOTEL, ST NICHOLAS STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273024
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Royal Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROYAL HOTEL, ST NICHOLAS 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:
- THE ROYAL HOTEL, ST NICHOLAS STREET
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 04337 88515
Details
1. 1605 ST NICHOLAS STREET (West Side) The Royal Hotel
TA 0488 4/188A
II
2. Mid C19. Possibly recasing of earlier house. 4 storeys stucco, cornice and parapet. Curved round corner site. Full height canted stucco bays with Corinthian colonettes dividing lights, string courses carried across. Composite columned entrance. Interior has very fine mid C19 staircase hall rising full height of building. It consists of a rectangular well, of which the ground floor is architecturally a basement with solid walls plain palisters and cornice whole the 1st 2 floors have lofty Corinthian columns grouped at the corners of the stair well. (One column is in fact a pier, and another a pilaster attached to a pier). The columns support a rich entablature. Above the entablature is a single attic storey with panelled piers. Cornice over and top light. The staircase, of cast iron, starts as a single flight facing the front door, and branches out in freestanding curves to 1st floor level. There is an iron balustrade to 1st floor gallery level, and a suspended gallery landing at 2nd floor level with a cast iron balustrade behind the columns. Top floor with cast iron balustrade between piers. At 1st floor level there is a staircase of similar character facing the entrance door rising from the rear of the gallery to the 2nd floor. There are panelled doors in mounted surrounds at all gallery levels and the features and details in character. The Terrace Lounge, 1st floor has 2 mid C19 enriched plaster ceilings in a room in 2 parts divided by a flat arch supported on 2 Corinthian columns. Marble chimney piece. Remainder of interior altered. Some of the first films brought to this country and made by Louis Lumiere were shown here in 1897 and at the former Old Town Hall.
Listing NGR: TA0433788515
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 446715
- 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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