British Listed Buildings

Listing Text

HARTLEPOOL CHURCH STREET
NZ 5132
(south side)
11/51 No. 16 (The Shades
Hotel)

G.V. II

Public house, mid C19, refaced c.1900. Brick, faced with faience to ground
floor; stucco to upper floors; and hipped Welsh slate roof having 3 ridge
stacks. Art Nouveau style. 3 storeys; 9-bay ground floor and 5-bay upper
floors, with additional quadrant corner bay. Doorways, to first, 3rd and
corner bays, have 3-panelled double doors and overlights with glazing bars,
between panelled pilasters. Male human mask keystone above corner doorway.
Flat-arched window to 5th bay, with panelled pilasters. Other bays :
arcaded windows having quasi-Ionic 3-columns, female human mask keystones
and female human figures to spandrels and rising up through elaborately
ornamented frieze to the dentil cornice. Iron ornamental security grilles
to windows. Upper-floor bays are defined by Composite pilasters, paired
either side of 3rd bay. 2nd and 4th bays are wider having canted
first-floor bay windows with diminutive pediments above centre opening;
paired windows to 2nd floor between quasi-Ionic pilasters. All upper-floor
windows contain casements or fixed lights; geometric glazing bars to top
lights on first floor; glazing bars to 2nd-floor windows where sills and
lintels are continued as moulded string courses. Frieze and deep dentil and
modillion eaves cornice, bracketed above first and 5th bays. 8 ground-floor
and 5 upper-floor bays to right return in similar manner to front. Disused
at time of survey.


Listing NGR: NZ5130632670

Source: English Heritage

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