Site:   

Warwick Arms Hotel,

Ipsley Street

Grid Reference:    

SP 0434 6736

Description:

Former hotel, now in various commercial uses. Late 19th century. Brick with stone, moulded brick and terracotta dressings. Plain tiled, steeply-pitched roofs, partly behind parapet with crested ridge and finials. Chimneys with moulded cappings. Rectangular plan on corner site, canted at corner, with main front of 3 bays. 2 storeys with half-dormers Brick band at first-floor level, moulded cornices to first-floor windows and moulded sill course to second floor. Windows and canted corner on second floor are articulated by narrow brick pilasters which break through the roof eaves and are linked by an unusual moulded cornice. Dormer windows have triangular and curved pedimented gables. Altered corner shop front. Varied fenestration elsewhere. Central entrance bay breaks forward on corbels that form porch to doorway. Plaque beneath first-floor window. First-floor windows have quoined stone surrounds. Forms turret with a concave pyramidal roof. Entrance beneath has a quoined surround.

Significance:

A substantial late 19th century building located on a prominent corner site with some unusual detail and a particularly lively roof profile and ornate upper storey intended to be seen from the town centre. Despite some alteration, it continues to form an important focal point with the adjacent Millsborough House (qv) and Emmanuel Chapel (qv) at this end of Ipsley Street that anchors the somewhat desultory structures that survive in the immediate vicinity, helping to create a visual link between the town centre and the Smallwood district beyond. .

History:

This building........