Description

THE STRAND
1.
1577
(North Side)
No 1 (Hotel Ryde Castle)
SZ 5992 3/320

II GV

2.
Circa 1840, originally private house in crenellated style, extended later
to East. Two storeys, stone rubble with ashlar quoins, rendered coping
to crenellated parapets. Main front to Esplanade: a square three storeyed
entrance tower raised by an extra storey to South, both levels with crenel-
lation and square and octagonal chimneys corbelled at angles. One
window to first and second floors. Next to West: a slightly recessed bay
of two windows first floor, three on ground floor followed by a three
sided turret, slit windows to front and lancet on West side. Finally
a slightly taller section of two windows first floor and rectangular
bay to ground floor. Hipped slate roof visible through crenellation.
The first floor of entrance tower has a three light canted bay, mullioned
and transomed parapet with four gable capped finials. Second floor
three light casement. The ground floor rectangular bay at West end is
rendered with crenellation, French window in centre flanked by side lights.
The other windows are two light casements, French windows to ground floor
of recessed bay, set in rendered surrounds with drip moulds over.
Rectangular entrance bay to Tower with cornice and shallow stepped
pediment. Recessed modern double doors in moulded four centred arched
surround, drip mould over. Rendered two storeyed and single storeyed
wings have been added to the East, West and South in keeping with
crenellated style, drip moulds over windows.

Nos 1 to 7 (consec) and Nos 9 to 20 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: SZ5967292713

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26531596

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Recommended Books

• 
  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)