The Grand Hotel

GRANBY STREET 1. 5304 (South West Side) SK 5804 SE 3/241 The Grand Hotel II 2. 1896 and 1898, by Cecil Ogden and Simpson and Harvey. Large corner building in Franco-German Rennaissance style. Four storeys and attics. Red brick with stone dressings. Curved corner with flanking paired columns to each floor and surmounted by two-stage stone-domed cupola. Granby Street elevation has two ornate pedimental gables flanking turrets with smaller gable between, the turrets have high tent-shaped roofs. Belvoir Street elevation has very large gable, pedimented at apex, and with flanking octagonal domed turrets, with very large tripatite round-arch window to first floor banqueting hall, and pilastered round-arch lights above. All windows are stone mullion transom, some in two-storey shallow splayed bays with small pediments over. Moulded cornices at floor levels. The ground floor is taken up by modern shop fronts except for iron-canopied entrance to Granby Street and good entrance to Belvoir Street. Steep chateau-type slate roofs with dormers.

Listing NGR: SK5898504275