Station Hotel

SJ 7687 ALTRINCHAM STAMFORD NEW ROAD

458-0/10000-7/10000 Nos 42 and 44 Station Hotel

GV II

Shop (No.42) and public house (No.44). Late C19, slightly altered. Red brick with painted stone dressings and some moulded red terracotta ornament, slate roof. Double-depth plan, the Station Hotel double-fronted and the shop to its right single-fronted; with various back extensions. Eclectic style. Three storeys, 5+2 windows. The Station Hotel (No.44) is almost symmetrical, with a chamfered stone plinth, a featured centre bay framed by narrow panelled pilasters with composite caps (now painted), similar pilasters to the ends, moulded sill-bands to both upper floors, a frieze of moulded terracotta swags and a moulded cornice. The centre bay has a doorway with pilastered architrave, moulded cornice and an overlight of 3 round-headed stained glass lights flanked by consoles; at 1st floor a prominent canted oriel which has a panelled apron lettered STATION HOTEL , transomed side windows, a round-headed centre window with keystone fluted in the frieze, and a moulded cornice with segmental pediment; and above the eaves an elaborate Dutch gable with panel lettered STATION HOTEL , a terracotta swag, fluted frieze and triangular pediment. The ground floor to the left is a 2-bay arcade with banded piers and wide elliptical arches with moulded and banded heads containing 3-light windows with panelled aprons and slim wooden baluster mullions; to the right, a full-width plate-glass window of 3 rectangular lights with similar baluster mullions, elliptical overlights with radiating glazing bars and foliated spandrels. Both upper floors have sashed windows without glazing bars, all with foliated terracotta aprons and emphatic architraves, those at 1st floor with cornices on consoles and those at 2nd floor segmental-headed with shouldered architraves and keystones. No.42 to the right has an original tripartite shop-front at ground floor with recessed entrance to left and plate-glass windows, and upper floors with fenestration matching No.44. INTERIOR: Station Hotel retains layout of c.1900 almost unaltered, principally a panelled island bar with curved corners. Forms group with Clock Tower (q.v.) and with Nos 1 to 11 (Stamford House) opposite, together marking northern boundary of Conservation Area.

Listing NGR: SJ7690287882