County Hotel
TheCounty Hotelis a historic building inHarrogate,a town inNorth Yorkshire,in England.
The hotel was the fourth to open in Harrogate, and was built about 1700, when it was known as the "Salutation". It offered stabling, and was cheaper than its rivals: theGranby Hotel,Queen Hotel,and Dragon. It appears to have been rebuilt in about 1830, incorporating a neighbouring house. The hotel was later renamed the "Hope Inn", then in the 1820s as "Gascoigne's Hotel". It passed through many owners, and at various times hosted auctions, church services, and meetings of the Harrogate Gentleman's Club. It wasgrade II listedin 1975. In the 1990s, it was renamed the "County Hotel", but it later closed and was converted into housing.[1][2][3]
The building is constructed ofgritstone,and consists of two blocks. The left block has two storeys and fivebays,a floor band and aslateroof. The right block has three storeys and an attic and four bays, apedimentedgable,and a tile roof. The doorway has afanlight,the windows in both parts aresashesand in thetympanumof the pediment is a round-arched window withimpostsand akeystone.The end bays have niches containing statues. There is a porch, which was added later.[2][4]
Behind the former hotel is a separate building, also listed at grade II. It was long believed to be a gin store, but more recent work suggests that it was built in the late 19th century as abilliard room.[5]
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- ^Chrystal, Paul (2016).Harrogate Pubs.Amberley Publishing.ISBN9781445653198.
- ^abHistoric England."County Hotel (1149479)".National Heritage List for England.Retrieved21 November2024.
- ^"32 Devonshire Place, Harrogate, North Yorkshire".TJC Heritage.Retrieved21 November2024.
- ^Leach, Peter;Pevsner, Nikolaus(2009),Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North,The Buildings of England, New Haven and London:Yale University Press,ISBN978-0-300-12665-5
- ^Historic England."Spirit Safe at the County Hotel, Harrogate (1334958)".National Heritage List for England.Retrieved20 November2024.