Royal Clifton Hotel

SOUTHPORT

SD3317SW 664-1/11/160 15/11/72

PROMENADE (East side) Royal Clifton Hotel (Formerly Listed as: PROMENADE (East side) Royal Hotel)

II

Hotel, 1853-4 by Thomas Withnell; enlarged 1865; and subsequently integrated with a pair of large houses to the left (formerly the Clifton Hotel). Stucco, with slate roofs. STYLE: mixed styles, the original portion with a Jacobean accent, its extension in French Renaissance style, and the portion to the left eclectic. PLAN: 3 substantial blocks, that at the right-hand (south-west) end being the original hotel and that in the centre the 1865 extension to it. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with cellars and attics; 5:6:5 bays. The right-hand portion is almost symmetrical, the outer bays breaking forwards slightly, with quoins and shaped gables. 2-storey canted bay windows throughout, with cornices to both levels and the lower dentilled, and parapets, the outer bays with pilasters and consoled fronts imitating balustrades. 1/1 sashes to ground and first floors, 2/2 to second floor; small round-headed window in each gable. Square tower behind ridge, with banded corner pilasters, round-headed window and pyramidal roof with finial. Large late C20 octagonal conservatory added to south-west corner. The centre portion is symmetrical except for a linking sixth bay, has a semicircular turret in the centre with a conical roof, and outer bays which break forwards slightly and have 2-storey bay windows with curved corners and projected second-floor windows with arched gables, and pavilion roofs. Sill bands to all floors, bracketed eaves; tall square-headed 1/1 sashes at ground floor; tall round-headed 1/1 sashes at first floor in groups of 3, 2, 5, 2, 3 and 2 with linked 2-centred hoodmoulds; segmental-headed 1/1 sashes at second floor except the outer bays which have 2-centred arches containing paired round-headed sashes. Large glazed gabled canopy to entrance in sixth bay. The portion to the left, symmetrical except for porch in fourth bay, has 2-storey bay windows to the centre and outer bays (the latter canted), all with bracketed cornices; bracketed frieze. Shaped gables to the centre and outer bays and segmental-headed dormers between them; and a mansard roof. All windows are 1/1 sashes: square-headed at ground floor, segmental-headed at first and second floors, round-headed in attic. INTERIOR: includes dining rooms and ballrooms. Principal rooms with stained glass skylights.

Listing NGR: SD3327917195