Description

BRIXHAM

SX9256SW NEW ROAD, Lower Brixham 1946-1/10/193 (South side) 18/10/49 The Bolton Hotel (Formerly Listed as: BOLTON STREET Bolton Hotel)

GV II

Includes: The Bolton Hotel BOLTON STREET Lower Brixham. Hotel. Early/mid C19. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slated roof. 2 painted brick chimneys on rear wall. 3 storeys. 3-window front to New Road; 2-window return to Bolton Street with one window on the rounded corner. Main entrance is at left-hand end of New Road front; Doric porch with vase at each end of blocking-course, the pedestals of the vases decorated with wreaths; panelled reveals; fanlight with glazing bars forming zig-zag pattern. Late C19 half-glazed door to right of Bolton Street front has 3 raised and fielded panels at bottom; glazed upper panel has THE BOLTON HOTEL inscribed in frosted glass. Windows mostly have small-paned sashes with margin-panes: 6 over 6 panes in ground and second storeys, 3 over 6 panes in third storey, except that those on the rounded corner are 4 panes wide. The ground storey of the Bolton Street front differs in having a single wide window containing 2 pairs of plain sashes. Both this and the ground-storey window on the corner have C19 iron guard-rails decorated with quatrefoils and scrolls. Right-hand third-storey window to Bolton Street is blind. Moulded cornice above ground storey on both fronts. Second-storey windows have cornices on consoles. Deep plain eaves-cornice. INTERIOR partly inspected on ground and first floors. These seem much altered, but moulded cornices remain in parts of ground floor. Wooden dogleg staircase with column newels; balusters boxed in. Bolton Street entrance has inner porch with half-glazed partition similar to the entrance door, including the name of the hotel in frosted glass; egg-and-dart cornice. (Brixham Tithe Map and Apportionment: 1838-).

Listing NGR: SX9233156004

External Links

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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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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)