Severn View Hotel

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SO8454NE NORTH QUAY 620-1/16/464 (East side) 08/03/74 Severn View Hotel Formerly Listed as: NORTH QUAY (East side) Severn View Hotel Public House)

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2 houses, now hotel. Mid/late C18 to easternmost dwelling with c1820-1840 dwelling adjoining to west and later additions and alterations including late C19 range to north-west, ground floor alterations c1950s and renovations c1990s. Pinkish-brown brick to rear, otherwise stuccoed, with hipped slate roof to west building and hipped plain tile roof to east; three end stacks to east range, tall rear stack to west range, all with oversailing courses. PLAN: L-plan altogether, the hotel occupies a corner site with the earlier house facing Newport Street (east range) and the later house built at right-angles to face North Quay (west range). EXTERIOR: range to west: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows with single-storey, single bay range to left. First and second floors have 6/6 sashes, taller to first floor, all in plain reveals and with sills. Modillion eaves band. Central entrance a renewed plank door, renewed casement windows with leaded lights. To left range a 4-flush-beaded-panel door. Right return: 2 first-floor windows and similar fenestration. Range to east: 3 storeys with attics, 4 first-floor windows. 2/2 horned sashes in near-flush frames throughout. 2 segmentally-arched roof dormers with casement windows. Off-centre left entrance: renewed plank door. Otherwise ground floor has casement windows with leaded lights as before. INTERIORS: ground floor opened into large space and original features mainly removed. Upper floors retain original joinery and plasterwork. Range to west has dog-leg staircase with stick balusters and carved tread ends. Moulded plasterwork to some rooms. Fireplace to first-floor front room has white marble chimneypiece on carved corbels with 1870s tiled surround. Panelled shutters. To second floor a cast-iron grate. Boxed beams. RANGE TO EAST: open newel, closed string staircase to full height with rod-on-vase balusters and shaped handrail. Chamfered axial beams. Panelled shutters, panelled aprons to some windows at rear. Exposed beams and rafters to attic. HISTORICAL NOTE: the house to west is said to have been built for an undertaker. The house to east became an ale-house before 1801 and during the C19 it was known as the Hope and Anchor. The house to west is thought to have been built on the edge of the city walls.