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Latitude: 51.5651 / 51°33'54"N
Longitude: -1.7843 / 1°47'3"W
OS Eastings: 415049
OS Northings: 185163
OS Grid: SU150851
Mapcode National: GBR YQV.WF
Mapcode Global: VHB3F.1X2J
Plus Code: 9C3WH688+37
Entry Name: The Great Western Hotel
Listing Date: 23 April 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1283238
English Heritage Legacy ID: 318822
ID on this website: 101283238
Location: New Town, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN1
County: Swindon
Electoral Ward/Division: Central
Parish: Central Swindon South
Built-Up Area: Swindon
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire
Church of England Parish: Swindon New Town
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
Tagged with: Railway hotel
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SU 18 NE
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SWINDON
STATION ROAD (south side)
The Great Western Hotel
(Formerly listed as The Great Western Restaurant)
II
Hotel (resturant at time of listing), c1870, altered 1876, extended left 1896.Painted brick with stone dressings. Slate roof. Original building in Gothic revival style. 2 storey and cellar, 3 bays, symmetrical with central entrance and canted bay windows. Moulded string courses and moulded round-headed 4-pane sashes with wide spaced hood mouldings and carved terminals. Door, now blocked, pointed arch on stiff-leaf columns with inner shouldered arch. Small flanking lights all under continuous hood mould. First floor almost continuous paired pointed lights on stiff-leaf nook shafts. Bays with octagonal pitched roofs, the right with weathercock. 2-bay return to Wellington Street. Left 1896 extension of 3 storey, 2 bays and left forward wing with canted 3 storey bay. Door in angle in projecting porch with moulded cornice. Lean-to to right. Stack above with name and datestone. Windows 2- and 4-pane sashes, round and segmental heads on bay, square and round heads on main block, all with hood moulds. Bay with octagonal pitched roof and crested ridges.
Listing NGR: SU1514385241
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