Royal Hotel Royal Public House

HARTLEPOOL CHURCH STREET NZ 5132 (north side ) 11/57 Royal Hotel and Royal Public House. 23.10.81

• II

Railway hotel. Mid C19 with slightly later west extension. Pink and yellow local brick with stone and stucco dressings; Welsh slate roofs. Main east front to railway, 3 storeys, 4 bays, the left set back. Banded rusticated ground floor has prostyle tetrastyle Tuscan porch in third bay. Panelled double doors with margined overlight. 2-storey canted bay to left and a round-arched window in far left bay; widened opening on right. Upper floors have quoins, top frieze, cornice and corniced parapet with pilasters. Second-floor cill band. All windows sashes with glazing bars. Central raised, glazed attic. Hipped roofs. 5-bay left return to Church Street in similar style has C20 panelled double door with blocked overlight in plain corniced doorcase. 3-bay west extension, now the Public House, has an added top floor, above the cornice and blocking course, with low pyramidal roof and deep, bracketed eaves soffit. Door as hotel. Sash windows with glazing bars or margin lights, tripartite in outer bays. Hotel part empty and dilapidated at time of survey.

Listing NGR: NZ5138732739