Victoria Hotel

CROSBY

SJ3197NE GREAT GEORGE'S ROAD 778-1/8/45 (North West side) Victoria Hotel

GV II

Includes: Victoria Hotel BATH STREET. Hotel, now public house. Probably c1840; altered. Painted roughcast render with sandstone dressings, slate roof with rendered chimneys. L-plan on corner site. EXTERIOR: 3 storey 2-window gabled faced with 2-storey 2-window side wing to the right; with a painted plinth and painted quoining. The taller gabled portion has 3 windows at ground floor with moulded architraves and altered glazing, 2 sashed windows on each upper floor with matching architraves, those at 1st floor 16-paned and those above short 6-paned, a long signboard between these floors lettered "VICTORIA HOTEL" and a draped roundel in the gable. The wing to the right has 3 short windows at ground floor with altered glazing and two 16-pane sashes above, all with moulded architraves like the others, flanked by square-headed doorways with pilaster jambs and pediments on consoles. The left return (to Bath Street), a 3-window range with a one-window extension to the rear, has a doorway to the 2nd bay like those at the front but altered as a window, and windows like those at the front, including a 16-pane sash to the right and a 9-pane sash to the left at 1st floor, and three 6-pane sashes at 2nd floor (the others with altered glazing). Large multiple-flue ridge chimney at junction with extension. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with No.30 (Royal Hotel), Bath Street (qv) on opposite corner.

Listing NGR: SJ3195297704