{"entry-date":"2026-01-28","start-date":"1986-02-19","end-date":"","entity":42190004,"name":"GRAND HOTEL","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"06/0011/II","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":242,"geometry":"MULTIPOLYGON (((-1.423749 55.022412, -1.423734 55.021959, -1.423488 55.021947, -1.423264 55.021938, -1.423238 55.022147, -1.423215 55.022318, -1.42321 55.022346, -1.423545 55.022385, -1.423749 55.022412)))","point":"POINT (-1.423493 55.022168)","quality":"authoritative","uprns":"47070944","description":"Hotel. 1872 by Thomas Moore of Sunderland. Sandstone ashlar with Welsh slate roof. French and Italian design elements. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 5 bays. Central door has carved spandrels, polished granite nook shafts and a heavy carved bracketed cornice on banded pilasters. Outer wider bays have tripartite windows, those on lower floors in square bay projections with entablatures above ground and first floors, the former continued across the front and right return. All windows sashes with margin lights, segmental-headed on second floor with big bracketed sills, round-headed below in architraves with long keystones. Mansard roof, with 5 round-headed dormers, rests on projecting bracketed eaves cornice. Modern raised central attic. Simpler, similar 3-bay right return. Included partly for townscape value in its prominent position on the sea front.","listed-building":"1025376"}