Queens Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1996. Hotel. 2 related planning applications.
Queens Hotel
- WRENN ID
- scattered-obsidian-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Southport MP: Patrick Hurley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 February 1996
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Queens Hotel, Bank Square, PR9 0DY
- OS grid reference
- SD 337 177
- Coordinates
- 53.65236, -3.00457
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Queens Hotel is a large hotel built in 1866 and subsequently enlarged to the rear. It is constructed from rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings and has a hipped slate roof concealed behind a parapet. The building is of Renaissance style, forming a large, irregular U-plan on a corner site, with a main range running parallel to the Promenade and extensive wings added to the rear.
The main facade is three storeys high, likely with a concealed attic, and features a four-window range. Architectural details include a plinth, quoins, sill bands to the upper floors, a deep two-course frieze with zigzag enrichment, a modillioned cornice, and a balustraded parapet with urns which extends around to Bank Square. The ground floor has a round-headed doorway, accessed by three steps and protected by a painted porch with Corinthian columns and a mutuled pediment. A segmental bay window is situated to the left of the doorway, with pilasters, a frieze, a modillioned cornice with a blocking course, and square-headed sash windows. Other front windows are round-headed, matching the style, with the outer bays featuring two-storey canted bay windows, topped with modillioned cornices and balustraded parapets. The two windows between the canted bays at the first floor have pedimented architraves, while the four windows at the second floor have simpler round-headed architraves. A corniced chimney is visible in the centre of the range.
The original three-window return facade to Bank Square has a central doorway with a pedimented architrave, a two-storey canted bay window to the left similar to those on the front, but with square-headed sashes. A sash window to the right has a segmental-pedimented architrave, with two square-headed sashes at the first floor with corniced architraves, and round-headed sashes on the second floor. An eight-window wing has been added to the rear.
The interior was not inspected at the time of listing. The hotel represents a relatively unaltered example of a mid-19th century seaside hotel.
Local climate
Queens Hotel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 51 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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