Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Date of Designation
10/04/1989
Date of Amendment
10/04/1989
Name of Property
Unicorn Hotel P.H.
Address
4 Long Bridge Street
Location
Set into a row of street frontages near the central crossroads; stepped down from the adjoining properties.
History
Early C19 late Georgian broad 3-storey
Exterior
4-window painted brick front with plinth. Slate roof with boarded eaves and brick chimney stack to left. 9 and 12-pane sash windows with voussoirs and cills, one to 1st floor with quite broad glazing bars. Hotel sign is between 1st and 2nd floors to left. The main entrance is to centre of No 4 with broad classical doorcase and 4-panel door. Victorian 'shopfront' to No 5 with fascia ends, dentil cornice and twinned round arches to window heads with colonnettes. Central splayed entrance with narrow frosted glass door. Cambered carriage arch at right to gated through passage with brick wall to left and rubble wall to right. Rubble rear with modern glazing.
Reason for designation
Group value.
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