NHER 42993 (Building record) - Royal Hotel, 4 Marine Parade

August 1974. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Hotel. Opened in 1840, facade and large rear extensions 1877 by JB Pearce. Stuccoed red brick. Slate roof.
EXTERIOR: façade in four storeys. Five three-storey canted window bays and an additional bay to right. French doors to ground floor. In centre is a rusticated square entrance porch with a pulvinated frieze and a plain cornice. First-floor bay windows with cast-iron balcony railings on scrolled and pierced brackets. French windows...Entrance bay with a crowning achievement. Modillion eaves cornice below a hipped roof. Stacks on rear and side slopes. Rear wing extends west along Waterloo Road. Six full-height canted bays and a rusticated central entrance, now blocked...
INTERIOR: large internal courtyard created when rear ranges added, absorbing a formerly external winter garden. Of this the cast-iron columns with pierced spandrels remain abutting the former rear wall of the 1840 building, all now internal. Open-well staircase with turned balusters and newels. Ball finials.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Charles Dickens stayed here 1848-1849 while writing David Copperfield and met James Sharman (the keeper of the Nelson's Column) on whom he supposedly based the character of Ham Peggotty."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
A. Cattermole (NLA), 24 January 2006. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 March 2022.