Former Royal Hotel
The Royal Lofts, Sowerby Street, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 3BN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313748
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former Royal Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- The Royal Lofts, Sowerby Street, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 3BN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313748
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former Royal Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Royal Lofts, Sowerby Street, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 3BN
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 Lofts, Sowerby Street, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 3BN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 05810 23407
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 May 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SE 0423 and SE 0523
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SOWERBY BRIDGE
SOWERBY STREET (south side)
The Royal Lofts
Former Royal Hotel
(Formerly listed as The Royal Hotel, SOWERBY STREET)
II
Former hotel. Mid C19. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. Three storeys with cellar; seven bays to Sowerby Street, six bays to West Street, rounded corner bay. Openings have plain stone surrounds, windows with flat-faced mullions. Corner bay has a three-light window to each floor with curved four-pane sashes; cornice with blocking course; flat roof.
Sowerby Street front: painted and ground floor rendered. Plinth. First floor cill band. Tall doorway with pilasters and cornice to bay two; to bay four a tall round-arched doorway with four-panel double door, fanlight, hollow-moulded surround incised as quoins and a small circular moulded recess to either side. Windows have lintels incised as voussoirs; most have sashes or four-pane sashes and are one-light, second floor window of bay one blocked, two-light windows to ground and first floors of bay six and three-light windows with wider central lights to bay seven. Flat roof to bays one and two. Two corniced stacks.
West Street front: three left bays set back slightly and with straight joint between them and right-hand part which has cellar. Doorway to bay three; late C19 shop front to left bay with four-panel door, shop window, rusticated jambs and entablature. Above it on each floor a three-light window with wider central light. Two-light windows to ground and firlst floors of bay four, bay six blind, otherwise single-light windows. Continuous first-floor cill band; gutter brackets on table. Eaves stack to right; two corniced ridge stacks. Recorded as being occupied in 1847 by John March (Whites Directory).
Listing NGR: SE0581023407
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339363
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Whites Directory, (1847), 475
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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