The Great Western Hotel
THE GREAT WESTERN HOTEL, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283238
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Great Western Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE GREAT WESTERN HOTEL, STATION ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283238
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Great Western Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GREAT WESTERN HOTEL, STATION ROAD
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 GREAT WESTERN HOTEL, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Swindon (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- South Swindon
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 15049 85163
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13/03/2013
SU 18 NE
2/160
SWINDON
STATION ROAD (south side)
The Great Western Hotel
(Formerly listed as The Great Western Restaurant)
II
Hotel (resturant at time of listing), c1870, altered 1876, extended left 1896.Painted brick with stone dressings. Slate roof. Original building in Gothic revival style. 2 storey and cellar, 3 bays, symmetrical with central entrance and canted bay windows. Moulded string courses and moulded round-headed 4-pane sashes with wide spaced hood mouldings and carved terminals. Door, now blocked, pointed arch on stiff-leaf columns with inner shouldered arch. Small flanking lights all under continuous hood mould. First floor almost continuous paired pointed lights on stiff-leaf nook shafts. Bays with octagonal pitched roofs, the right with weathercock. 2-bay return to Wellington Street. Left 1896 extension of 3 storey, 2 bays and left forward wing with canted 3 storey bay. Door in angle in projecting porch with moulded cornice. Lean-to to right. Stack above with name and datestone. Windows 2- and 4-pane sashes, round and segmental heads on bay, square and round heads on main block, all with hood moulds. Bay with octagonal pitched roof and crested ridges.
Listing NGR: SU1514385241
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 318822
- 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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