Survey Data
Reg No
22303020
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
Royal Hotel
Original Use
Hotel
In Use As
Restaurant
Date
1850 - 1870
Coordinates
213587, 189460
Date Recorded
11/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced four-bay three-storey former hotel, built c.1860. Now in use as restaurant with shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with triple timber-bracketed eaves and with cut sandstone chimneystack. Snecked cut sandstone walls with raised sandstone quoins, eaves cornice and sill-course. Timber sliding sash windows to upper floors, two-over-two pane within segmental-arch openings to first floor and two-over-pane in depressed-arch openings with raised keystones to second. Timber shopfront comprising fluted pilasters, consoles, fascia and cornice with plate-glass windows and timber half-glazed door.
Appraisal
This building makes an imposing impression on the street due to its texture and local materials. It retains timber sash windows and its sill course adds visual interest. The building, of apparent architectural quality, was constructed by skilled craftsmen and displays similar construction to the adjacent Garda station.