ROYAL CLIFTON HOTEL

ROYAL CLIFTON HOTEL, PROMENADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379735
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: ROYAL CLIFTON HOTEL
Statutory Address:: ROYAL CLIFTON HOTEL, PROMENADE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379735
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Jul-1999
List Entry Name:: ROYAL CLIFTON HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: ROYAL CLIFTON HOTEL, PROMENADE

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:: ROYAL CLIFTON HOTEL, PROMENADE

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:: SD3327917195

Details

SOUTHPORT

SD3317SW 664-1/11/160 15/11/72

PROMENADE (East side) Royal Clifton Hotel (Formerly Listed as: PROMENADE (East side) Royal Hotel)

II

Hotel, 1853-4 by Thomas Withnell; enlarged 1865; and subsequently integrated with a pair of large houses to the left (formerly the Clifton Hotel). Stucco, with slate roofs. STYLE: mixed styles, the original portion with a Jacobean accent, its extension in French Renaissance style, and the portion to the left eclectic. PLAN: 3 substantial blocks, that at the right-hand (south-west) end being the original hotel and that in the centre the 1865 extension to it. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with cellars and attics; 5:6:5 bays. The right-hand portion is almost symmetrical, the outer bays breaking forwards slightly, with quoins and shaped gables. 2-storey canted bay windows throughout, with cornices to both levels and the lower dentilled, and parapets, the outer bays with pilasters and consoled fronts imitating balustrades. 1/1 sashes to ground and first floors, 2/2 to second floor; small round-headed window in each gable. Square tower behind ridge, with banded corner pilasters, round-headed window and pyramidal roof with finial. Large late C20 octagonal conservatory added to south-west corner. The centre portion is symmetrical except for a linking sixth bay, has a semicircular turret in the centre with a conical roof, and outer bays which break forwards slightly and have 2-storey bay windows with curved corners and projected second-floor windows with arched gables, and pavilion roofs. Sill bands to all floors, bracketed eaves; tall square-headed 1/1 sashes at ground floor; tall round-headed 1/1 sashes at first floor in groups of 3, 2, 5, 2, 3 and 2 with linked 2-centred hoodmoulds; segmental-headed 1/1 sashes at second floor except the outer bays which have 2-centred arches containing paired round-headed sashes. Large glazed gabled canopy to entrance in sixth bay. The portion to the left, symmetrical except for porch in fourth bay, has 2-storey bay windows to the centre and outer bays (the latter canted), all with bracketed cornices; bracketed frieze. Shaped gables to the centre and outer bays and segmental-headed dormers between them; and a mansard roof. All windows are 1/1 sashes: square-headed at ground floor, segmental-headed at first and second floors, round-headed in attic. INTERIOR: includes dining rooms and ballrooms. Principal rooms with stained glass skylights.

Listing NGR: SD3327917195

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Legacy System number:: 479140
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.