Crown Hotel

Crown Hotel, Crown Place, Harrogate, HG1 2RZ

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1315825
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:
Crown Hotel
Statutory Address:
Crown Hotel, Crown Place, Harrogate, HG1 2RZ
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1315825
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:
Crown Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
Crown Hotel, Crown Place, Harrogate, HG1 2RZ

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Crown Hotel, Crown Place, Harrogate, HG1 2RZ

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Harrogate
National Grid Reference:
SE2987855372

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 2 December 2024 to reformat the text to current standards

SE 2955 SE
12/87

CROWN PLACE (east side)
Crown Hotel

GV
II
Circa 1847 centre (on site of earlier inn of circa 1740), with Italianate extention to east and west of circa 1870 designed by J H Hurst and built by George Dawson.

The classical building of 1847 of three storeys and attics with three window projecting centre and one window wings. Formerly the building had an extra window bay at each end and a mansard roof replaced in 1870 by a flatter roof and balustraded parapet. 1870 extensions of three storeys with three bays and tower with cupola at east end. Slated hipped roofs. Grit stone ashlar, extensions with rusticated ground floor and pilasters to quoins. Three bay centre with pilasters rising through first and second floors carrying continuous entablature (attic windows in frieze) with balustraded parapets ; architraved sash windows first floor with console bracketed cornices and central segmental pediment, ground floor with triangular pediments. Extensions with three-light windows, with splayed bays rising through ground and first floor with arched lights and cornices, and with blind balustraded balconies to first floor. Four storey tower with circular cupola with dome removed. Bow window additions of circa 1870 to rear and sides of building. Central Corinthian prostyle portico in antis with balustraded parapet.

Interesting Italianate entrance hall and dining room.Open well staircase with cast iron balustrade. East facade further remodelled circa 1899, with addition of tower designed by W J Morley.

The Crown Hotel forms a group with Nos 1 to 3 (consec) and the Royal Pump Room Museum.

Listing NGR: SE2987855372

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
329860
Legacy System:
LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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