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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 97 SW 1134
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:THE ROYAL FOUNTAIN HOTEL

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1799.

The Royal Fountains Hotel, West Street, Blue Town, was included in a summary survey on the Sheerness docklands in 1995.


Grid Reference:TQ 9110 7494
Map Sheet:TQ97SW
Parish:SHEERNESS, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

  • SITE (Post Medieval - 1700 AD to 1799 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1243144: THE ROYAL FOUNTAIN HOTEL

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
WEST STREET 1. 5282 (East Side) Blue Town, Sheerness No 15 (The Royal Fountain Hotel) TQ 9174 NW 3/123 2.3.50.
II GV 2. An C18 hotel with Nelson associations. Corner building. The West Street elevation is of 3 storeys and attics faced with rough plaster and paint. 4 dormers. Painted plinth. 4 windows to each floor. The 1st floor has bow windows and panelled sash boxes and moulded head. 3 cambered dashes to ground floor. Front entrance has moulded pilasters and architrave, panelled reveals and Vitruvian scroll frieze. Grooved surround to doorway. The south elevation is of brown brick. 3 cambered sashes. Painted plinth.
Listing NGR: TQ9110974944 (1)

In 1995 a summary on the Sheerness docklands was carried out by the RCHME. The Royal Fountains Hotel, West Street, is a red brick building built in the early/mid 19th century. It has four storeys, including the attic, and is three bays by four bays. A early 20th century photgraph shows thesouth elevation having shop windows at ground floor level and some of the upper floor windows were blocked up. To the east the hotel is ajoined to an 1866 block constructed by for Shepherd Neames and Co., wine a spirits merchants. (2)

By the 2009 and Google images the Hotel is no longer in use.


<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England, 1995, Sheerness: The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town (Unpublished document). SWX6974.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<2>Unpublished document: Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England. 1995. Sheerness: The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town.