Description

ST. MARY'S

SV9010 CHURCH STREET, Hugh Town 1358-0/8/47 (South side) 06/04/59 Bellrock Hotel and attached walls and railings (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET, Hugh Town (South side) Bell Rock Hotel And Bell Rock Hotel on West)

GV II

House, now hotel. Early C19 with mid C20 additions and external details. Granite rubble with aggregate render; green cement tile roof and rendered ridge and end stacks. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys with attics; original 3-window range front to left (east) has quoins to left and 6/6-pane sashes; 2-window range west wing, heightened in C20 from single storey to 2 storey, has C20 six/six-pane and 8/8-pane sashes,C20 part-glazed doors in quoined surround, quoins to left and plat band. C20 hipped dormers with sashes. Interior:6-fielded-panelled doors set in moulded architraves; moulded shutter boxes and architraves to windows. Fine, possibly reset, fanlight with 1780s leadwork and glazed sunburst lights and outer band of roundels with florets and swags; early C19 anthemion detail applied on one side only suggests re-use of whole light in this position, with Greek revival pilasters below. Hall has Vitruvian scroll and anthemion cornice. Dog-leg staircase with swept string, mahogany handrail and simple turned newel posts from basement to attics. Room at east with simple reeded cornice, black polished marble fireplace, long drawn-out scroll brackets and deep shelf. Subsidsiary features: coursed and dressed granite forecourt walls surmounted by spear-headed railings interrupted by urn finials.

Listing NGR: SV9052310523

External Links

• Wikidata Q26433978

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)