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The Imperial Hotel — The Mall

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The Imperial Hotel — The Mall
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Attached four-bay three-storey hotel, established 1795[?]; extant 1838[?], originally two separate two-bay three-storey townhouses. Reconstructed, 1891-2, producing present composition. Sold, 1902. Renovated, 1995. For sale, 2010. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gable with rendered chimney stack to apex having "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on boxed rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hopper and downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on moulded cushion course on rendered plinth with diamond pointed panelled rendered piers to ends. Square-headed off-central door opening with cut-limestone threshold, and drag edged rusticated cut-limestone surround centred on panelled keystone below "Cavetto" cornice with fittings now boarded-up. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

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