The Victoria Hotel

1. 5111 BRIDGE STREET BD1

The Victoria Hotel SE 1632 46/304

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1. 1867 by Lockwood and Mawson. A large sandstone "brick" hotel, the main front facing north. Italian Romanesque detailing to the fenestration but with French pavilion, slightly domed roof, over the short flanking wings. The design indebted to the Grosvenor Hotel at Victoria, London, for the massing and roof line. Arcaded ground floor windows; colonetted lights on first floor with archivolt heads; pierced stone tympanum on second floor; plain similar windows on third floor. The ground floors of the short wings have large canted bay windows with polished granite shafted Corinthian columns to front; pierced stone parapets. The main entrance has coupled similar columns, deeply moulded arch to fanlight and pierced balustrade above. The steeply pitched slate roofs use firm carved bracketed eaves cornice. Oeuil-de- boeuf French C17 style stone framed dormers.

Listing NGR: SE1655232890