The Shades Hotel

HARTLEPOOL CHURCH STREET NZ 5132 (south side) 11/51 No. 16 (The Shades Hotel)

G.V. II

Public house, mid C19, refaced c.1900. Brick, faced with faience to ground floor; stucco to upper floors; and hipped Welsh slate roof having 3 ridge stacks. Art Nouveau style. 3 storeys; 9-bay ground floor and 5-bay upper floors, with additional quadrant corner bay. Doorways, to first, 3rd and corner bays, have 3-panelled double doors and overlights with glazing bars, between panelled pilasters. Male human mask keystone above corner doorway. Flat-arched window to 5th bay, with panelled pilasters. Other bays : arcaded windows having quasi-Ionic 3-columns, female human mask keystones and female human figures to spandrels and rising up through elaborately ornamented frieze to the dentil cornice. Iron ornamental security grilles to windows. Upper-floor bays are defined by Composite pilasters, paired either side of 3rd bay. 2nd and 4th bays are wider having canted first-floor bay windows with diminutive pediments above centre opening; paired windows to 2nd floor between quasi-Ionic pilasters. All upper-floor windows contain casements or fixed lights; geometric glazing bars to top lights on first floor; glazing bars to 2nd-floor windows where sills and lintels are continued as moulded string courses. Frieze and deep dentil and modillion eaves cornice, bracketed above first and 5th bays. 8 ground-floor and 5 upper-floor bays to right return in similar manner to front. Disused at time of survey.

Listing NGR: NZ5130632670