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Latitude: 54.6857 / 54°41'8"N
Longitude: -1.2132 / 1°12'47"W
OS Eastings: 450823
OS Northings: 532576
OS Grid: NZ508325
Mapcode National: GBR MGZ8.43
Mapcode Global: WHD6F.BHJ7
Plus Code: 9C6WMQPP+7P
Entry Name: Grand Hotel
Listing Date: 1 June 1983
Last Amended: 17 December 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1250608
English Heritage Legacy ID: 432930
ID on this website: 101250608
Location: Hartlepool, County Durham, TS24
County: Hartlepool
Electoral Ward/Division: Victoria
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Hartlepool
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Hartlepool St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Hotel
HARTLEPOOL SWAINSON STREET
NZ 5032
(west side)
10/117 Grand Hotel (formerly
listed in Victoria
1.6.83 Road)
- II
Hotel. 1899 dated on plaque above Victoria Road entrance; by J. Garry. Red
engineering brick with rich, moulded terracotta dressings. Welsh slate roof
with wrought-iron crestings. Main entrance front 3 storeys, attic and
basement, 7 wide bays, most holding 2 windows. Central prostyle quasi-
Tuscan porch, with egg-and-dart mouldings, to round-arched doorway with
radial fanlight, deep terracotta voussoirs alternating with gauged brick and
mask key. Projecting window, with quadrant sides, above and paired windows
over, below terracotta and iron oriel balcony to paired windows in central
tower. Tower has tall near-pyramidal roof with octagonal glazed chamber and
flagstaff on top. Flanking bays are recessed and arcaded on first floor.
Bays 2 and 6 have 2-storey square projections. Some glazing modernised; all
windows in rich terracotta surrounds with mouldings and sculpture. First-
floor entablature with swag frieze. Second-floor cill string. Top
entablature with dentil cornice. Mansard roof with 12 square-headed
dormers, oculus above in end pavilions. Curved area wall with terracotta
balustrade. 7-bay return to Victoria Road in similar but plainer style,
also symmetrical with central entrance. Interior shows ornamental
plasterwork dated 1900, by F.W. Doyle Jones, over passage arches; and art
nouveau motifs on dado of staircase with large landing window of painted
glass.
Listing NGR: NZ5082332576
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