Description

MIDDLESBROUGH ZETLAND ROAD,
NZ 4920 NE south side.

8/98 No. 9 (Zetland Hotel)
G.V. II
Hotel c.1860. Rear extensions 1893 by J.M. Bottomley, and 1898 (2nd and
3rd floors) by W. Duncan (both Middlesbrough). Brick; frontage rendered
and scored to imitate rusticated ashlar. Welsh slate roof with brick stack
Italianate style. 3 storeys and basement, 6 bays. Public house frontage on
ground floor. Renewed double doors and overlights in right end bay.
Chamfered plinth with 3 richly-ornamented pierced iron basement vent grilles
in 2nd, 4th and 5th bays. Altered glazing; painted glass-panelled
stallrisers recessed behind short slender quasi-Ionic columns supporting
shorter fluted square quasi-Tuscan columns, frieze and bracketed cornice.
Round-headed upper windows with archivolts and moulded imposts; casements on
first floor, sashes on 2nd floor. Late C20 bracketed sign centred between
upper floors. Applied lettering: "ZETLAND HOTEL", under bracketed eaves
cornice. Shallow-pitched roof has 3 late C19 flat-roofed dormers, and
central transverse ridge stack. INTERIOR: mosaic floor, in lobby has hotel
name and Greek-Key border. Dogleg staircase has closed string; round-headed
arcaded column-on-vase balustrade, moulded handrail, carved panelled square
newels and panelled dado. Rear extension has 1893 polychrome faience
3x5-bay panelled room. Panelled dado, below keyed round-headed arcading,
holding etched mirrors and renewed windows in architraves. Mirrored panels
in pilasters; egg-and-dart-moulded archivolts, scrolled keys with cherub
masks, and reeded and fluted impost bands. Renewed door in architrave,
under fancy panelled frieze and cornice. Egg-and-dart-moulded ceiling
cornice above frieze with waterleaves, shells, cherubs, scrolls and baskets
of fruit. Jacobean-style geometric-panelled plaster ceiling with moulded
ribs.

Listing NGR: NZ4953320640

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Zetland at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26432652

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)