Royal Albert Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Southampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 April 1976. Hotel.
Royal Albert Hotel
- WRENN ID
- errant-pillar-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southampton
- Constituency
- Southampton Itchen MP: Darren Paffey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 April 1976
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Royal Albert Hotel, Albert Road South, City of Southampton
- OS grid reference
- SU 428 111
- Coordinates
- 50.89848, -1.39139
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Albert Hotel is a 19th-century building located on Albert Road Square. It is constructed of yellow brick with a grooved stucco ground floor, featuring giant pilasters and a cornice above. The hotel has a hipped slate roof with a modillion cornice and stands three storeys tall with an attic, arranged in three bays. The central bay includes two arched windows on the first and second floors. The ground floor windows retain their original arched springs but have altered glazing. Above, there are sash windows with glazing bars, with the outer ones on the first floor featuring pedimented heads on console brackets. There is a similar one bay elevation to Bridge Terrace, and a single storey wing is located at the right end of the building.
Local climate
Royal Albert Hotel receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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