Listed Building record TQ 97 SW 1134 - 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.

Location

Grid reference TQ 9110 7494 (point)
Map sheet TQ97SW
Civil Parish SHEERNESS, SWALE, KENT
County KENT
District SWALE, KENT

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

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.

Historic England archive material: BF093374 THE ROYAL FOUNTAIN HOTEL WEST STREET, BLUE TOWN, SHEERNESS


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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England, 1995, Sheerness: The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town (Unpublished document).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

  • <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 Unpublished document: Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England. 1995.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.

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Related Events/Activities (2)

  • Non-Intrusive Event: Investigation by RCHME/EH Architectural Survey (EKE19937)
  • Non-Intrusive Event: Buildings survey on Sheerness Dockyard, Defences & Blue Town (EKE8308)

Record last edited

May 2 2025 11:35AM