The Royal Clarendon Hotel and 1-4 Royal Pier Mews is a Grade II listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1975. Hotel. 5 related planning applications.
The Royal Clarendon Hotel and 1-4 Royal Pier Mews
- WRENN ID
- narrow-timber-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1975
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Royal Clarendon Hotel and 1-4 Royal Pier Mews, Royal Pier Road, Gravesend, DA12 2BE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 649 743
- Coordinates
- 51.44437, 0.37276
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Clarendon Hotel and 1-4 Royal Pier Mews is a building that dates from around 1860, originally converted from a house that was occupied by James II when he was the Duke of York and Lord High Admiral. The hotel is four storeys high, with a stuccoed exterior and a rusticated ground floor. It features twelve windows, a cornice and parapet above the third floor, and a modillion cornice above the second floor. The building has two projections that are not symmetrical, consisting of two and three windows respectively, with stuccoed quoins and iron balconies on the first floor. The windows are set in moulded surrounds with architraves above, supported by console brackets, and retain their glazing bars. A Tuscan porch is also present.
To the west of the hotel is a long low wing of two storeys with eleven windows, known as 1-4 Royal Pier Mews. To the east, there is a two-storey addition, with the ground floor room serving as a ballroom. Notably, Princess Alexandra, who later became Queen, spent her first night in England at this location on March 7, 1863, upon her arrival to marry the Prince of Wales. The Royal Clarendon Hotel and 1-4 Royal Pier Mews were originally part of a group with No 29, which included three figureheads in the grounds of No 29, although these figureheads were removed by January 2013.
Local climate
The Royal Clarendon Hotel and 1-4 Royal Pier Mews sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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