Description

GRANBY STREET
1.
5304
(South West Side)
SK 5804 SE 3/241 The Grand Hotel
II
2.
1896 and 1898, by Cecil Ogden and Simpson and Harvey. Large corner building
in Franco-German Rennaissance style. Four storeys and attics. Red brick
with stone dressings. Curved corner with flanking paired columns to each
floor and surmounted by two-stage stone-domed cupola. Granby Street elevation
has two ornate pedimental gables flanking turrets with smaller gable between,
the turrets have high tent-shaped roofs. Belvoir Street elevation has
very large gable, pedimented at apex, and with flanking octagonal domed
turrets, with very large tripatite round-arch window to first floor banqueting
hall, and pilastered round-arch lights above. All windows are stone mullion
transom, some in two-storey shallow splayed bays with small pediments
over. Moulded cornices at floor levels. The ground floor is taken up
by modern shop fronts except for iron-canopied entrance to Granby Street
and good entrance to Belvoir Street. Steep chateau-type slate roofs with
dormers.

Listing NGR: SK5898504275

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Grand Hotel at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5594622

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)