Imperial Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1987. Hotel. 2 related planning applications.
Imperial Hotel
- WRENN ID
- rusted-solder-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1987
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Imperial Hotel, Front Street, Stanley, DH9 0TB
- OS grid reference
- NZ 193 527
- Coordinates
- 54.86933, -1.70006
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Imperial Hotel is a building dating from around 1905, originally constructed as a hotel and now used as offices. It is made of brick with polychrome terracotta and glazed tile decorations, while the ground floor is painted. The roof is made of graduated Lakeland slate and features terracotta gable copings and a wooden corner turret, all designed in a Baroque style.
The building is two storeys high and consists of five bays, including a canted left corner bay and a one-bay left return. The central and fifth bays have flushed doors and overlights, which are topped with pediments; a hood was added over the main door around 1980. The ground-floor bays are defined by pilasters, with paired 3-light mullioned-and-transomed windows that support an entablature. The fourth bay is a two-storey canted bay.
On the first floor, the central panel displays "IMPERIAL HOTEL" in an Art Nouveau style, with moulded aproned surrounds and alternate-block jambs framing the paired sash windows in the other bays. The building features a top cornice, and the mansard roof has four gabled dormers that contain paired sashes with upper glazing bars. The roof also has wide, moulded kneelers and three tall ridge chimneys on plinths. The corner bay includes a six-panel double door and overlight beneath a half-octagonal terracotta oriel, which has a panelled entablature below the slate coping. There is a panelled octagonal clock turret, although the dome has been lost.
Local climate
Imperial Hotel receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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