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The Harcourt Hotel — Harcourt Street

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The Harcourt Hotel — Harcourt Street
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Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement former house, built 1862, with flat-roofed return to rear (east). Now in use as hotel. M-profile pitched roof, hipped to north-end of rear span with rooflights inserted, concealed behind cogged red brick parapet having projecting brick eaves course on brick brackets with granite coping, parapet gutters. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with granite plinth course over snecked ashlar limestone walls to basement. Largely square-headed window openings, segmental-headed openings to third floor, with brick voussoirs, brick reveals and projecting granite sills. One-over-one sliding timber sashes with ogee horns. Round-headed Romanesque-Revival door opening with brick voussoirs, engaged chevron ornamented colonnettes with foliate capitals, nail-headed archivolt and masked figurative keystone, stepped reveals with toothed and rope mouldings having foliate keystone. Ornate carved-timber pilasters supporting carved-timber fascia with ivy-leaf ornament and cornice, leaded cobwebbed fanlight and replacement timber panelled door. Square-headed opening to basement, having smooth rendered surrounds (rebuilt and refaced), with recent window. Shared granite entrance platform to principal entrance (west) with cast-iron boot scraper and nosed granite steps, flanked by decorative cast-iron railings on carved granite plinth, enclosing basement area to south. Interior (west rooms) retain decorative plasterwork cornices. Street-fronted, located on east side of Harcourt Street.

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