Royal Victoria Hotel, Retaining Wall And Approach Ramp

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE VICTORIA STATION ROAD 784-1/6/733 Royal Victoria Hotel, retaining wall and approach ramp

GV II

Former station hotel, retaining wall and approach ramp. Approach ramp 1848. Hotel 1861 and late C19, restored c1990. By ME Hadfield. Hotel, brick with painted ashlar dressings and hipped artificial slate roofs with 7 coped rusticated ridge stacks. Retaining wall and approach ramp, coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings. EXTERIOR: plinth, first floor band, third floor sillband, modillion eaves. 4 storeys; 9 window range. Windows are mainly plain sashes, those to the ground floor segment-headed, those to the third floor smaller. Projecting central entrance bay has windows with moulded surrounds and is topped with a gable containing a segmental pediment and roundel. First floor window has a segmental pediment and keystone. Round-arched doorway has small triangular pediment. On either side, recessed bays with 2 windows on each floor, the ground floor ones with keystones. Beyond, on either side, hipped projecting bays with 2 windows on each floor, the first floor ones with segmental pediments. All these windows have projecting surrounds. Right bay has on the ground floor a canted bay window with 3 sashes. Left return has a recessed centre, 3 storeys plus basement and attics; 5 window range. Rusticated basement. Right wing has 3 windows on each floor, all with projecting surrounds. Left wing, 4 storeys, has a single central window on the upper floors, and 3 on the ground floor. INTERIOR has entrance hall flanked by reception desk and lounge, with enriched cornices and arches and panelled ceiling. Lobby has plaster wall panels divided by Ionic pilasters and coved reticulated ceiling with boss. Main lounge has similar panelling and pilasters, heavily enriched modillion cornice, and reticulated coved ceiling with rooflight. Adjoining room, in similar style, has 3-bay reticulated ceiling with roundels. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outside, cast-iron spiked railing on plinth. Retaining wall with string course, chamfered coping and pilaster buttresses, topped with a railing at the side of the hotel. Approach ramp, of similar design, is carried on 10 round arches.

Listing NGR: SK3602287936