Royal Hotel

TG 2308 NW AGRICULTURAL HALL PLAIN (north side) 16/5 Royal Hotel GV II Former hotel, now restaurant/bar offices. 1896-97. E. Boardman and Sons. Red brick and terra cotta panels. Slate roofs. Island site. 4 storeys plus attic storey. 6 south facing bays counted as the principal facets of the semi-octagonal plan. Square corner turrets and dormer gables to the end and central bays. The ground floor mullion and transom have semi-circular moulded brick arches with drip course. The central, south entrance had a first floor balcony above supported on consoles and extending half-way across the adjoining bays. The single-storey bay window above has brick mullion and transom windows and a crenellated parapet. Mullion and transom windows with side-hung casements throughout. Sash windows on the 3rd floor. The dormer gables each have 4 sash windows, flat rubbed brick arches and a triangular pediment above the 2 central windows. The central gable has blind reticulated tracery above the pediment. Mullion and transom stair windows in the adjoining left-hand bay at half-floor level. Contained within a ½ bay width recess with moulded brick jambs and a semi-circular head with blind tracery. The square turrets that flank the end and central dormer gables are emphasized in the facade by the windows being contained within a paired, arched rocess with moulded brick jamb and square, decorated aprons beneath the windows. The corners of the building have twisted brick pilasters terminating at cornice level, small octagonal turrets with blind tracery above. Heavy cornice with tripartite arches supporting vegetal frieze and parapet. 4 hipped-roof dormers between each corner turret and dormer gable. Pyramidal roofs with finial to turrets and lead conical roofs to octagonal turrets.

Listing NGR: TG2331608636