Description

MAIN STREET
1.
5166 (west side)
No 30 (Royal Hotel)
SD 6178 NW 5/60 12.2.62
II GV

2.
Mid C18 inn, altered C19, incorporating a C17 house behind. Three storeys. Ashlar.
Slate roof. Two chimneys. Chamfered rustication to ground floor. First floor sill
band, dentil and modillion cornice and blocking course. Symmetrical facade to
Main Street of five bays. Windows with sills and plain reveals, rustication splayed
over those on ground floor. Sashed with all glazing bars. Central window first
floor elongated downwards with small semicircular wrought iron balcony. Over this
window mid C19 painted tablet with "Royal Hotel" framed by triglyphs and mutules.
Porch with two Ionic columns and corresponding pilasters on wall, pulvinated frieze,
modillion cornice and pediment. Extension to right hand side before 1855. Three
storeys. Coursed rubble. One bay to Main Street, five to New Road. Corner rounded.
Eaves cornice. Windows with plain stone surrounds, sashed with all glazing bars.
Doorway to New Road with open pediment on consoles. In yard behind, older part
retains one moulded lintel to second floor window. C17 doorway (now window) with
moulded jambs and lintel enriched with curvilinear moulding and rosettes. Other
windows box sashed with all glazing bars.
Interior. Front room right hand side has semicircular extension through former
external wall with mid C19 fireplace with pilaster strips. Large rectangular stair-
case with two flight cantilevered stair mid C19. In lobby behind staircase two
exposed beams and made up Jacobean chimneypiece of wood with two dissimilar Ionic
pilasters. In west wing on first floor late C17 or early C18 two flight dogleg stair
with closed string. Turned balusters, heavy moulded handrail, three turned newels
with ball finials and one ball pendant.
Part of the building was formerly a private residence called Jackson Hall. This
became the Rose and Crown Inn, but New Road was driven across the northern part of the
property after a fire in 1820. A visit of Queen Adelaide in 1840 occasioned the
change of name and probably the additions. (Annals).

Listing NGR: SD6113478620

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26605054

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