Building record MDO3861 - Royal Hotel, Newbury, Gillingham

The hotel had a rendered south front and was divided into three bays by pilasters; the central bay was gabled. There was a porch (probably a later addition) with cast iron columns over the central doorway. <1>

Royal Hotel built ca. 1840. <2>

The hotel building has been demolished (in about 2004) and the site redeveloped.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 31 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘Unless otherwise described, the following monuments are of the 18th century and are two-storeyed, or single-storeyed with dormer-windowed attics, and have coursed rubble walls and tiled or slated roofs. … (25) The Royal Hotel (81112640) is of the first half of the 19th century. The S. front is rendered and divided into three bays by shallow pilasters; the centre bay is gabled. The doorway in the centre bay has a porch with cast-iron columns, probably a later addition.’

<2> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 216 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1973 (Map). SWX1197.

(ST 8111 2640) Royal Hotel [NAT]

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 912808 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 25 2022 2:14PM