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Description: The Royal Hotel (Now converted to apartments 1-11 The Royal Loft)

Address: The Royal Lofts Sowerby Street Sowerby Bridge Calderdale

Grade: II

Group detail: Sowerby Street (south side)

Full description:
Hotel. Mid C19. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. 3 storeys with cellar; 7 bays to Sowerby Street, 6 bays to West Street, rounded corner bay. Openings have plain stone surrounds, windows with flat faced mullions. Corner bay has a 3-light window to each floor with curved 4-pane sashes; cornice with blocking course; flat roof. Sowerby Street front; painted and ground floor rendered. Plinth. 1st-floor cill band. Tall doorway with pilasters and cornice to bay 2; to bay 4 a tall round-arched doorway with 4-panel double door, fanlight, hollow-moulded surround incised as quoins and a small circular moulded recess to either side. Windows have lintels incised as voussoirs; most have sashes or 4-pane sashes and are 1-light, 2nd-floor window of bay 1 blocked, 2-light windows to ground and 1st floors of bay 6 and 3-light windows with wider central lights to bay 7. Flat roof to bays 1 and 2. 2 corniced stacks. West Street front: 3 left bays set back slightly and with straight joint between them and right-hand part which has cellar. Doorway to bay 3; late C19 shop front to left bay with 4-panel door, shop window, rusticated jambs and entablature. Above it on each floor a 3-light window with wider central light. 2-light windows to ground and 1st floors of bay 4, bay 6 blind, otherwise single-light windows. Continuous 1st-floor cill band; gutter brackets on table. Eaves stack to right; 2 cornridge stacks. Recorded as being occupied in 1847 (by John March. (Whites Directory), 1847, p 475).