PARADISE HOUSE HOTEL

PARADISE HOUSE HOTEL, 88, HOLLOWAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395863
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: PARADISE HOUSE HOTEL
Statutory Address:: PARADISE HOUSE HOTEL, 88, HOLLOWAY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395863
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: PARADISE HOUSE HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: PARADISE HOUSE HOTEL, 88, HOLLOWAY

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: PARADISE HOUSE HOTEL, 88, HOLLOWAY

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 74786 64171

Details

HOLLOWAY 656-1/0/0 (North side) No.88 Paradise House Hotel 12/06/50

GV II

House, now Hotel, in pair, formerly part of Paradise Row. c1735, double-fronted c1780 with c1850-60 addition with C20 alterations. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roof. PLAN: Wide symmetrical frontage with central staircase, and with bold projecting octagonal section to both floors rear right. EXTERIOR: Two storeys, attic and basement, three windows, all original sashes with bars. Full width slated attic or mansard has two wide-spaced windows, above central twelve-pane flanked by bold Palladian windows with unfluted Doric columns and responds, and on deep moulded sills with brackets, central arched light to left has interlaced bars. Ground floor has paired twelve-pane flanking five-panel door in thin pilasters to brackets and closed dentilled pediment, all windows have moulded stone architraves, moulding carried down to central mullion to ground floor pairs. To right of door glazed laylight to basement. Gables are coped, with ashlar stacks. To left narrow extra bay, of later C19, with hipped slate pavilion roof over pair of sashes in arches with two-coloured voussoirs and tile extrados, and central Ruskinian colonnette. Rear has twelve-pane sashes to bay, left, and four-pane to right, all with cornice and deep blocking course. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: Current owner has very good coloured engraving by Thomas Robbins showing the house in considerable detail.

Listing NGR: ST7478664171

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Legacy System number:: 511277
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.