Description

TYNEMOUTH GRAND PARADE (south side)
NZ 39 NE
Tynemouth
8/79
Grand Hotel
27.9.79
G.V. II
Hotel. 1872 by Thomas Moore of Sunderland. Sandstone ashlar with Welsh slate
roof. French and Italian design elements. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 5 bays.
Central door has carved spandrels, polished granite nook shafts and a heavy carved
bracketed cornice on banded pilasters. Outer wider bays have tripartite windows,
those on lower floors in square bay projections with entablatures above ground and
first floors, the former continued across the front and right return. All windows
sashes with margin lights, segmental-headed on second floor with big bracketed sills,
round-headed below in architraves with long keystones. Mansard roof, with 5
round-headed dormers, rests on projecting bracketed eaves cornice. Modern raised
central attic. Simpler, similar 3-bay right return. Included partly for townscape
value in its prominent position on the sea front.

Listing NGR: NZ3695069874

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26276240

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