PRINCE OF WALES HOTEL INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS

PRINCE OF WALES HOTEL INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS, LORD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379672
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1999
List Entry Name:: PRINCE OF WALES HOTEL INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: PRINCE OF WALES HOTEL INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS, LORD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379672
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1999
List Entry Name:: PRINCE OF WALES HOTEL INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: PRINCE OF WALES HOTEL INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS, LORD STREET

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:: PRINCE OF WALES HOTEL INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS, LORD STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 33410 17026

Details

SOUTHPORT

SD3317SW LORD STREET 664-1/11/110 (East side) Prince of Wales Hotel including area railings

GV II

Hotel. 1876-7, probably enlarged at an early date; altered later. By E Kenrick. Red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings (now painted white), slate mansard roof. Domestic Gothic Style. Large L-shaped plan on corner site, plus rear wings to main range. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus basements and attics in a bipartite composition of 3:5 bays (the 3-bay portion possibly an addition of 1912 by EW Johnson). The 5-bay portion is almost symmetrical, the centre and outer bays breaking forward, the centre gabled while the outer bays have mansard attics with gabled dormers. String courses, sill bands, and bracketed plastered eaves coving; basement area protected by bowed Art Nouveau-style wrought-iron railings with panels of floral motifs (carried across the whole range). The centre has a prominent added or altered cast-iron and glass porte cochere, protecting an entrance with Gothic colonettes which have stiff-leaf capitals, under a 2-centred arch; a flanking pair of painted stone pinnacles above the porte cochere; a canted bay window to the first and second floors, and a broad attic gable with oversailing ornamental arched plaster-and-timber-framing a pair of 2-centred arched windows. The outer bays have wide 3-storey canted bay windows, and mansard attics with gableted dormers in the same style as the centre. All these windows are sashed and have columnar mullions, carved imposts, stilted heads (segmental at ground and second floor, segmental-pointed at first floor) and painted stone tympani with incised decoration. The intermediate bays have canted oriels at ground floor (probably inserted), paired segmental-headed sashes at first floor with similarly enriched imposts and tympani, round-headed sashes at second floor under 2-centred arches, and flat-roofed dormers (altered or inserted). Beneath each first-floor window is an oblong panel with moulded surround containing mosaic enrichment (now painted black). The 3-bay portion to the left, with a recessed centre flanked by gabled outer bays with 3-storey canted bay windows, is in generally similar style with similar detailing. The right-hand return wall of the main range (to Portland Street) is a long 14-window range, beginning with a semicircular bay carried up to an attic turret with a gabled dormer and a steeply-pitched conical roof; beyond that are a gabled 3-storey canted bay and a semicircular bay window. INTERIOR: principal features are a pair of ballrooms projected from the rear of the main range, on different levels but adjacent to one another and now interconnected by curved double staircase in the former orchestra stage of the main ballroom. The main ballroom has massive sliding doors with bevel-edged plate glass, a gallery on 2 sides with foliated cast-iron balustrades and a curved staircase at each end, and a very large stained glass skylight with moulded plaster surround and a huge circular glass lantern suspended from the centre. (Formerly it had Ionic pilasters and a moulded plaster cornice.) The second ballroom, adjoining on a higher level to the south, has fluted Ionic pilasters and a similar skylight. Forms group with associated boundary walls and gate piers (qv).

Listing NGR: SD3341017026

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Legacy System number:: 479072
Legacy System:: LBS

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