Former Queen's Hotel
Former Queen's Hotel, Queens Court, Wilmslow Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366192
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former Queen's Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- Former Queen's Hotel, Queens Court, Wilmslow Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366192
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former Queen's Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former Queen's Hotel, Queens Court, Wilmslow 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:
- Former Queen's Hotel, Queens Court, Wilmslow Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alderley Edge
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 84302 78610
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/01/2019
SJ 87 NW
4/72
ALDERLEY EDGE CP
WILMSLOW ROAD (east side)
Queens Court
Former Queen's Hotel
(Formerly listed as Queens Hotel, WILMSLOW ROAD)
II
Former hotel, 1844 for the London and North-Western Railway Co. and extended later in C19. Flemish bond red brick with yellow and blue brick dressings and buff sandstone surrounds. Welsh slate roof.
Three-storey symmetrical three bay front. End bays have three-light mullioned and transomed windows and a two-light mullioned window in the top storey. The end bays have shaped stone-coped gables with pointed finials. Central projecting porch with a semicircular headed openings on three sides, to the front it is flanked by strip pilasters and the hotel name in the frieze; above is a two-light window and a single light with a stone-coped semicircular head on the eaves. The south front has 17 bays of which the eight to the right are additions. To the left are stone-coped gable half dormers and on the first floor, semicircular headed windows with heavy glazing bars with flat and segmental pediments opening onto balconies with iron balustrades.
The railway built the hotel for £6,000 as part of their scheme to encourage wealthy commuters to come to live on the Edge and it remains an early and unaltered railway hotel.
Listing NGR: SJ8430278610
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58238
- 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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