Description

ILFRACOMBE

SS5247 BROAD STREET
853-1/7/24 (East side)
15/06/51 The Royal Britannia Hotel

GV II

Hotel and public house. Probably late C18 with later additions
and alterations.
MATERIALS: stucco, chanelled at ground floor to appear as
ashlar; quoining to left-hand only.
PLAN: rectangular corner block with elevations to Broad
Street, The Quay and the harbour.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellars. Main, Broad Street, elevation
of 6 windows; 3 to right in slightly projecting later
addition. Main entrance central in older block with porch on
later brackets and part-glazed doors. 2-pane sashes to ground
floor; upper floors 12-pane unhorned sashes. Parapet. Above
porch to left and right, reliefs of Royal Arms flanking a good
iron lamp bracket.
Projecting block with early C19 timber shopfront of pilasters
supporting entablature with box cornice; plain panelled double
doors and 2 windows. 4-pane sashes to upper floors.
Elevation to The Quay with four 12-pane hornless sashes and
altered and renewed door, originally Tuscan with frieze and
cornice but now only pilasters and panelled soffit of canopy
used to form a cornice. Harbour elevation with three 3-storey
bows having 3-light unhorned sashes; blind windows between
bows on upper storeys. To left, a Tuscan doorcase with C20
double doors.
INTERIOR altered at ground floor level but retains some
original features; upper floors not inspected. This building
is a prominent and important feature of the harbour.
The Royal Britannia Hotel, Nos. 3 & 4, and 8-12 (consec) form
a group with Nos. 1 & 2 The Strand.

Listing NGR: SS5232347827

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26498618

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)