Wellington Hotel
1, Drake Street, Rochdale, OL16 1RE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367054
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Wellington Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- 1, Drake Street, Rochdale, OL16 1RE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367054
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Wellington Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, Drake Street, Rochdale, OL16 1RE
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:
- 1, Drake Street, Rochdale, OL16 1RE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rochdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 89760 13384
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 13/11/2019
SD 8913 SE
11/47
ROCHDALE,
DRAKE STREET (north-east side),
No 1 Wellington Hotel
(Formerly listed as No 1, DRAKE STREET, previously listed as Dukes Restaurant and Nightclub, DRAKE STREET)
GV
II
SUMMARY: former town house, now (2019) hotel and pub. Built between 1764 and 1795 as a town house for Thomas Smith
HISTORY: it was built between about 1764, when the vicar gained powers to grant building leases, and 1795, as a town house for Thomas Smith (1743-1806), a wealthy woollen merchant who built fulling mills behind it. It was later a school, then from 1818 the Wellington Hotel. Between 1825 and 1839 the police commissioners met here. In 1844, the building was still owned by the Smith family and the hotel was run by Elizabeth Richardson.
DETAILS: brick, appearing to be of various dates, the front appearing to have been re-faced, stone dressings and slate roof. Five bays, double-pile with three storeys and an additional wider bay to the right with a former bar entrance. Stone plinth, continuous ground and first-floor cornices and a modillion eaves cornice; steeply pitched roof. Pedimented Ionic doorcase as well as the entrance in bay six which has four Ionic pilasters and entablature. Window openings with moulded architraves, the ground floor having pulvinated friezes the first and second having sill blocks. Ground and first floors have Victorian sashes, otherwise glazing is C20. The original glazing pattern and some original brickwork is seen in the gable.
Listing NGR: SD8976013384
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358874
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Taylor, R, Rochdale Retrospect, (1956), 66, 73
Godman, P, Images of England, (2005), 21
Other
Lancashire Archives, DDCC/ACC1665, map of glebe lands of 1795
Touchstones, Rochdale Local Studies Centre, clipping by RD Mattley in file on Smith family
Touchstones, Rochdale Local Studies Centre, tithe apportionment of 1844
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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