The Royal Hotel

1. 1605 ST NICHOLAS STREET (West Side) The Royal Hotel

TA 0488 4/188A

II

1. Mid C19. Possibly recasing of earlier house. 4 storeys stucco, cornice and parapet. Curved round corner site. Full height canted stucco bays with Corinthian colonettes dividing lights, string courses carried across. Composite columned entrance. Interior has very fine mid C19 staircase hall rising full height of building. It consists of a rectangular well, of which the ground floor is architecturally a basement with solid walls plain palisters and cornice whole the 1st 2 floors have lofty Corinthian columns grouped at the corners of the stair well. (One column is in fact a pier, and another a pilaster attached to a pier). The columns support a rich entablature. Above the entablature is a single attic storey with panelled piers. Cornice over and top light. The staircase, of cast iron, starts as a single flight facing the front door, and branches out in freestanding curves to 1st floor level. There is an iron balustrade to 1st floor gallery level, and a suspended gallery landing at 2nd floor level with a cast iron balustrade behind the columns. Top floor with cast iron balustrade between piers. At 1st floor level there is a staircase of similar character facing the entrance door rising from the rear of the gallery to the 2nd floor. There are panelled doors in mounted surrounds at all gallery levels and the features and details in character. The Terrace Lounge, 1st floor has 2 mid C19 enriched plaster ceilings in a room in 2 parts divided by a flat arch supported on 2 Corinthian columns. Marble chimney piece. Remainder of interior altered. Some of the first films brought to this country and made by Louis Lumiere were shown here in 1897 and at the former Old Town Hall.

Listing NGR: TA0433788515