Description

WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P. HIGH STREET (south-west SJ 5441 side) 8/102 No. 46 (Victoria Hotel) 1.5.51 GV II

House, now inn. Early C19,incorporating substantial early C18 core. Red brick, painted to front. Slate roof. L-plan, with assembly room/ ballroom to rear. 3 storeys. Raised eaves band and thin moulded wooden cornice to parapet. Integral brick end stack to right and brick ridge stack off-centre to left. 1:3 bays; 16- and 12-pane glazing bar sashes with painted stone cills and slightly segmental heads. Ground-floor segmental- headed tripartite glazing bar sashes. Pair of late C19 doors in second bay from right, with 3 bolection-moulded panels each, diamond-leaded margin lights, rectangular overlight, reeded reveals and painted stone Ionic doorcase with unfluted columns supporting sections of entablature, dentil cornice, and panelled soffit. Frieze above to former balcony (not in situ at time of survey - November 1986). First-floor window above with C19 French casements. Decorative wrought-iron pentices over ground-floor windows. Fire hooks flanking second first-floor window from right. Depressed arched carriageway to left with boarded tympanum. Side door in tympanum with 6 raised and fielded panels and 3-part rectangular overlight. Rear: 2 stone-coped gables to right, that to right with small integral lateral brick stack to right and that to centre with integral brick end stack. Boxed glazing bar sashes. C18 rear wing to left with plat band (to north- west), central brick ridge stack and brick ridge stack to left. First- floor boxed glazing bar sash and C20 addition to front. One-storey early C19 lean-to in angle, with large 16-pane glazing bar sash. Assembly room/ ballroom adjoining at rear: early to mid-C19. Red brick with hipped slate roof. 2 storeys. Deep eaves. Integral brick end stack to right. 4 bays; wooden cross windows with painted stone cills and slightly-segmental heads. Ground-floor altered with inserted steel beam over 4 openings. Left-hand ground-floor corner with ashlar dressings. Left-hand return front with first-floor wooden cross window. Interior: C18 and early C19 fittings. Right-hand ground-floor room: early C18 corner buffet consisting of round arch with moulded architrave, raised and fielded panels in spandrels, moulded cornice and shaped shelves. C17 ovolo-moulded beam. C19 fireplace. Early C18 segmental archway to staircase hall with reeded antae. Early C18 dog-leg staircase rising to attic, with closed string, turned balusters, moulded handrail and square newel posts with double quirked beaded corners and moulded caps. Assembly room/ballroom: moulded cornice and central ceiling rose. The front appears to be an early C19 refacing of an early C18 building (see straight joint in side wall of carriageway). The Victoria Hotel was formerly known as The Red Lion. R.B. James,Whitchurch - Short History (1979),P.8.

Listing NGR: SJ5410841614

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