Grand Hotel

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ22NW SOUTH CHURCH ROAD 634-1/5/117 (East side) Grand Hotel

II

Public house. Dated 1901. Brick with painted ashlar ground floor and faience and ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys and stone or stone composition dressings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3x3 windows. Bar front has 3 elliptical moulded faience arches on rusticated jambs, central arch open with internal steps up to canted doors in half-glazed screen. Flanking arches have panelled stallrisers to windows with transom and 3 arched lights. Pilasters of Composite order flanking arches rise through full-width fascia and have segmental finials. Fascia has low relief GRAND HOTEL in side panels and elaborate emblem in centre with date 1901. Low relief dragons in spandrels of arches. Segmental-headed 2-light windows above, paired in central bay under half-timbered gable with 2-light casement. Right canted corner bay has blocked double doors below leafy carved bracket to round corner turret. Turret tapered, with mullioned windows below half-timbered top stage with low-pitched ogee dome and tall spike finial. Steeply pitched roof has swept eaves, dormer set at left with straight head and casements with glazing bars, and corniced ridge and rear chimneys. Right return in similar style.

Listing NGR: NZ2133829057