Description

SZ 79 NW HAVANT THE BEACH
Hayling Island
26.5.76
The Royal Hotel
9/11
II

Former hotel, continued in use by a London Borough, for its local people.
Circa 1825. Painted brick, stucco features, and a slate roof. Symmetrical
front (south) of 3 storeys, 2.2.3.2.2 windows, each unit marked by plain
pilasters and the projecting centrepiece (with an early C20 westward
extension of 5 attic above 4 windows). Brick walling in Flemish bond,
rubbed flat arches, arched openings to (the original) ground floor; stucco
cornice, with a blocking course (or parapet) raised above the centrepiece
as a low pediment, 2nd floor band. Sashes in reveals (mostly Victorian).
The feature of the building is a 1st floor cast-iron balcony across the
3 middle units, mocked at the ground floor by a continuous modern glazed
porch across the whole of the old front, The central doorway has a
fanlight above double ½-glazed doors.

Listing NGR: SP7494405778

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26624387

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)