The Royal Hotel

SZ 79 NW HAVANT THE BEACH Hayling Island 26.5.76 The Royal Hotel 9/11 II

Former hotel, continued in use by a London Borough, for its local people. Circa 1825. Painted brick, stucco features, and a slate roof. Symmetrical front (south) of 3 storeys, 2.2.3.2.2 windows, each unit marked by plain pilasters and the projecting centrepiece (with an early C20 westward extension of 5 attic above 4 windows). Brick walling in Flemish bond, rubbed flat arches, arched openings to (the original) ground floor; stucco cornice, with a blocking course (or parapet) raised above the centrepiece as a low pediment, 2nd floor band. Sashes in reveals (mostly Victorian). The feature of the building is a 1st floor cast-iron balcony across the 3 middle units, mocked at the ground floor by a continuous modern glazed porch across the whole of the old front, The central doorway has a fanlight above double ½-glazed doors.

Listing NGR: SP7494405778