QUEEN HOTEL INCLUDING FORMER STABLE WING AND RAILINGS

QUEEN HOTEL INCLUDING FORMER STABLE WING AND RAILINGS, CITY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375751
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: QUEEN HOTEL INCLUDING FORMER STABLE WING AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: QUEEN HOTEL INCLUDING FORMER STABLE WING AND RAILINGS, CITY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375751
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 23-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: QUEEN HOTEL INCLUDING FORMER STABLE WING AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: QUEEN HOTEL INCLUDING FORMER STABLE WING AND RAILINGS, CITY ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: QUEEN HOTEL INCLUDING FORMER STABLE WING AND RAILINGS, CITY ROAD

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District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 41307 66907

Details

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4166 CITY ROAD 1932-1/6/49 (East side) 10/01/72 Queen Hotel including former stable wing and railings (Formerly Listed as: CITY ROAD Queen Hotel) (Formerly Listed as: CITY ROAD Stables to Queen Hotel)

II

Hotel. 1860, damaged by fire 1861, rebuilt to same plan 1862. Brick and stucco; grey slate roof. EXTERIOR: basement and 4 storeys; hotel entrance in front of 11 windows to Station Road; one window to rounded corner, 8 windows to main block and 10 in lower south wing, probably undamaged by fire, to City Road. Quarry pavement to area; rusticated face to basement has 6-pane recessed sashes and double service doors. Rusticated half-arch bridging area carries flight of 7 stone steps and landing to projecting Corinthian-columned porch; double 2-panel doors in architrave. Ground floor windows formerly 11-pane including round-arched fans are now largely 2-pane; ornate panels beneath windows; sillband on consoles; ornate pilasters; architraves and ornate keystones to windows. Statue of Queen Victoria by Thornycroft above porch. Rusticated quoins to each upper storey. First floor has tripartite sash in ornate case above porch; modillion floorband; sillband on paired plinths beneath each, now 2-pane, sash in pedimented case. Second floor string; 2-pane sashes in segmental-arched openings with eared architraves, also shouldered to pair of sashes over entrance. The third floor string has consoles and modillion cornice; tall tripartite sashes in top-hamper to entrance bay; other windows similar to those of second floor. 6 ridge chimneys have moulded stucco caps with bold cornices. The rounded corner to City Road and Station Road has a tripartite sash to each storey. A wrought-iron bracket to hanging sign. The City Road face has similar detailing to that to Station Road, but with an added or modified projecting porch to bar lounge in Art Deco manner, with stone steps to each side. The detailing of the south wing is similar, but a little smaller in scale and the brickwork less fine. The rear face to the hotel garden is of a piece, but more simply expressed.

The former stable wing, now containing ancillary rooms, links the hotel to the Railway Station, Station Road (qv). One storey; coach archway has simple jambs and segmental arch with rusticated voussoirs. Architrave, frieze and cornice; hipped grey slate roof. The 4 bays right of archway and 2 bays to left have round-arched fixed lights of 6 and 4 panes plus 4 panes in fans; sillband and impost-band. Flight of 7 quadrant steps to entrance at corner with hotel has cast-iron railing and pilaster case to replaced door; a radial-bar semicircular window. INTERIOR of hotel retains many features. Hall has ornate cornice and dado. The 4-storey open-well stair has round cast-iron columns to well, ornate cast-iron balustrade, curtail step with rose, stone steps and niches with statues. Marble floor to reception hall. Classical cases to doors; some doors of 4 fielded panels. The Garden Room has columns and some cornices. The Albert Room giving onto the street corner is largely intact with dado, panels above, fireplace, overmantel and ceiling cornice. The south wing has oval geometrical stair through 3 storeys with open string, shaped brackets, rose, moulded balusters and swept rail. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: stone plinth and cast-iron spear railings to area before both faces of main block. HISTORICAL NOTE: when first built the hotel had 2 tall viewing-platforms built above the roof, which residents could climb to have a panoramic view of the historic city (c.f. the approximately contemporary Prospect House, High Street, Malpas C.P.) (Hughes T: The Stranger's Handbook: Chester: 1859-1869).

Listing NGR: SJ4130766907

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Legacy System number:: 469730
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hughes, T, The Strangers Handbook Chester 1859-1869

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.