Description

1. HIGH STREET 5130 (West Side) Hart and Garter Hotel SU 9676 NE 3/161 II 2. 1890 by R Robson (c.f. The Builder 1889). Large red brick 5 storey hotel with octagonal corner turret. Very much London manner: Gloucester Road/Harrington Road. Main block of 7 windows outer pairs flanked by pilasters. 4th floor as deep attic storey, parapet with ball finials, swept over outer bays - windows in arched recesses, pediments and swags. Front continued to corner turret at slight angle, close set windows; 1st and 2nd floor balconies. Ground floor has broad windows divided by pilasters. Doorway has paired Pompeian Doric columns with entablature. The corner turret has carved brick/terracota swags to parapet. Similar return front to Station approach, end bay breaks with quoin pilasters, segmental parapet - carved terracota ornament.

Listing NGR: SU9674076892

External Links

• Wikidata Q26605361

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