Royal Hotel
ROYAL HOTEL, MANVERS STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395642
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL HOTEL, MANVERS STREET
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395642
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL HOTEL, MANVERS STREET
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:
- ROYAL HOTEL, MANVERS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 75269 64400
Details
MANVERS STREET (East side) Royal Hotel (Formerly Listed as: MANVERS STREET Berni Royal Hotel) 11/08/72
GV II
Hotel. c1845. Possibly by HE Goodridge. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roofs. PLAN: Large L-plan building with emphasised quadrant corner, facing Bath Spa railway station (qv), all in traditional Bath classical detail, and with low wing, rear right, behind boundary wall. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, two+three windows to Manvers Street, three to the quadrant, and one+five to Railway Place, all sashes with glazing bars, in moulded stone architraves. All sections have six-pane to attic, over twelve, eighteen and twelve-pane, to ground floor lower half of each sash is plain in most cases. First floor quadrant windows have eared architraves, and cornices, with pediment to centre unit. Also several pavement grilles to basement lights. Central to quadrant is pair of panelled doors under transom light, set to deep reveals, porte-cochere projects over pavement, with slender cast iron columns to flat canopy on filigree iron brackets. Whole has small plinth, channelled ground floor under frieze and moulded band, full entablature with deep moulded cornice, attic, moulded dentil cornice and blocking. Quadrant has two Ionic columns in-antis, and paired Doric antae, inflected at entablature, carried through to attic storey, with small decorative blockings over the Ionic columns. To left are five bays, to right single bay with flat pilaster divisions, also carried through attic. Last two bays to Manvers Street are set back above ground floor, with four-bay cast iron balustrade, and with pair of part-glazed doors to transom light, in deep reveals. Sundry ashlar stacks to coped divisions. To right is tall ashlar boundary wall, behind which is square single storey extension with slate pyramid roof carrying prominent square lantern. End first floor window on Railway Place was once doorway leading to footbridge which went directly to platform level at station. INTERIOR: Considerably altered. HISTORY: The design is matched by the Argyll Hotel, Dorchester Street (qv) on the opposite side of Manvers Street, and the two buildings make a formal entrance to the street leading from the railway station to the city centre. This approach was laid out in accordance with the Great Western Railway Act of 1835. They are also early examples of railway hotels. SOURCES: (Jackson N: Nineteenth Century Bath - Architects and Architecture: Bath: 1991-: 71).
Listing NGR: ST7526964400
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511055
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 15-Jun-2026 at 01:37:43.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.