Grand Hotel

The Grand Hotel is a public house built in 1901, located on South Church Road in Bishop Auckland. It is constructed of brick with a painted ashlar ground floor and features faience and ashlar dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate and includes brick chimneys along with stone or stone composition dressings.

The building stands two storeys high and has a three-by-three window arrangement. The bar front showcases three elliptical moulded faience arches set on rusticated jambs. The central arch is open, leading to internal steps that rise to canted doors within a half-glazed screen. The flanking arches feature panelled stallrisers beneath windows that have transoms and three arched lights. Composite order pilasters flank the arches and extend through a full-width fascia, which is topped with segmental finials. The fascia displays the name "GRAND HOTEL" in low relief on the side panels, with an elaborate emblem in the center that includes the date 1901. Low relief dragons are depicted in the spandrels of the arches.

Above, there are segmental-headed two-light windows, paired in the central bay beneath a half-timbered gable that contains a two-light casement. The right canted corner bay has blocked double doors situated below a leafy carved bracket that leads to a round corner turret. This turret is tapered and features mullioned windows beneath a half-timbered upper stage topped with a low-pitched ogee dome and a tall spike finial. The steeply pitched roof has swept eaves and includes a dormer on the left with a straight head and casements that have glazing bars, as well as a corniced ridge and rear chimneys. The right return of the building maintains a similar architectural style.