Belgrave House

Belgrave House is a late Georgian building with Victorian alterations, designed in a U-plan. It has three storeys, a basement, and an attic, featuring a four-bay cement rendered front. This building was formerly one property and includes the right-hand cross range, which is now occupied by the Belle Vue Royal Hotel, creating a symmetrical front with advanced end pavilions.

The overall structure has a plinth, with a channelled ground floor and end pilaster strips on the advanced corner bay, which has a pediment treatment on the gable end. The steep slate roofs have ridge cresting and wide bracket eaves, with cement rendered chimney stacks. The dormers are slate hung with Gothic bargeboards, finials, and pendants. The right-hand bays feature horned sash windows with architraves, while the left side has small pane tripartite sash windows leading to a full-height bay window with dividing pilaster strips, although some glazing bars have been removed from the ground floor.

The right-hand bays have an overall ‘portico’ with an ornamental ironwork parapet, supported at the center by fluted Doric columns. Flanking this are Victorian single-storey casement window bays beside an Egyptian tapered doorcase, which is lugged to the top under a pediment, with half-glazed doors.

The Terrace Road elevation is slightly splayed, with a four-bay design and cement render. It features grooved end pilaster strips and a rusticated ground floor with a plinth. There are modern attic skylights, and the first and second-floor windows have margins, with the second-floor right window blocked. The ground floor has small pane sash glazing bars. The central doorcase is notable for its fluted columns without bases and Egyptian-inspired capitals, along with panelled reveals and half-glazed doors. The gable end is cement rendered, while the rear facing the courtyard is mainly rubble, with a splayed angle to the right and small pane sashes with voussoirs.

The interior has been altered due to the conversion into flats, but it retains a Georgian spiral staircase with a steep winding handrail.