Royal Hotel

MAIN STREET 1. 5166 (west side) No 30 (Royal Hotel) SD 6178 NW 5/60 12.2.62 II GV

1. Mid C18 inn, altered C19, incorporating a C17 house behind. Three storeys. Ashlar. Slate roof. Two chimneys. Chamfered rustication to ground floor. First floor sill band, dentil and modillion cornice and blocking course. Symmetrical facade to Main Street of five bays. Windows with sills and plain reveals, rustication splayed over those on ground floor. Sashed with all glazing bars. Central window first floor elongated downwards with small semicircular wrought iron balcony. Over this window mid C19 painted tablet with "Royal Hotel" framed by triglyphs and mutules. Porch with two Ionic columns and corresponding pilasters on wall, pulvinated frieze, modillion cornice and pediment. Extension to right hand side before 1855. Three storeys. Coursed rubble. One bay to Main Street, five to New Road. Corner rounded. Eaves cornice. Windows with plain stone surrounds, sashed with all glazing bars. Doorway to New Road with open pediment on consoles. In yard behind, older part retains one moulded lintel to second floor window. C17 doorway (now window) with moulded jambs and lintel enriched with curvilinear moulding and rosettes. Other windows box sashed with all glazing bars. Interior. Front room right hand side has semicircular extension through former external wall with mid C19 fireplace with pilaster strips. Large rectangular stair- case with two flight cantilevered stair mid C19. In lobby behind staircase two exposed beams and made up Jacobean chimneypiece of wood with two dissimilar Ionic pilasters. In west wing on first floor late C17 or early C18 two flight dogleg stair with closed string. Turned balusters, heavy moulded handrail, three turned newels with ball finials and one ball pendant. Part of the building was formerly a private residence called Jackson Hall. This became the Rose and Crown Inn, but New Road was driven across the northern part of the property after a fire in 1820. A visit of Queen Adelaide in 1840 occasioned the change of name and probably the additions. (Annals).

Listing NGR: SD6113478620