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Date of photo: 2014	Picture source: David Gray
The Wellington Hotel was situated on Bristol Street. This building is grade-II listed.
Now reopened.
Mick Crowe (April 2022)
Listed building details:
A public house of 1890 by James and Lister Lea, extended from a house of late C18 origin, with alterations in 1930 by J. P Osborne. Materials: brick with polished granite and buff ceramic tiles to ground floor, stucco render to floors above. There is a brick parapet to the roof. Doors and windows are timber. Plan: the Wellington Hotel occupies a corner plot at the junction of Bristol Street with Bromsgrove Street. This junction is at an obtuse angle of around 130 degrees. The building footprint comprises of a north-east / south-west aligned house with an east / west orientated wing to the south of this. The principal elevation largely faces north-west to Bromsgrove Street but also occupies a frontage of a little over two metres on Bristol Street where the bow fronted east / west wing projects to the west. The angle between the wings is filled at ground floor level by the street frontage, but is visible at first and second floor levels where the front line of the building runs north from the bay fronted wing, then curves to the north-east where it adjoins 99-102 Bromsgrove Street. The bay fronted wing is abutted by 74 Bristol Street to the south. The rear of the Wellington extends eastwards towards Henstead Street. An irregularly shaped courtyard is formed to the north and east, enclosed by the rear of 99-102 Bromsgrove Street to the north, a single storey outbuilding to Henstead Street to the east, and by 74 Bristol Street to the south. Exterior: ground floor and two upper storeys. The roof is obscured by a brick parapet. The ground floor frontage of 1930 is clad with polished granite tiles. This frontage is punctured by the moulded door surrounds and the dado area below the windows, which are in buff ceramic tiles. The cornice and a course below the fascia are also in these buff tiles. Three single doorways, all later C20, are positioned equidistantly along the front. A hatch to the cellar is between the north-eastern and central doors. The north-east door leads to the pool room, the south-west door is to the main bar and the central door is not in use. The ground level slopes slightly from the north-east down to the south-west and there is a step up to the north-eastern door. The south-western and north-eastern doors have brackets for a lantern above them. The windows are three over three lights with an opening central light above the transom, and the central lights are slightly wider than those either side. The lights above the transom are leaded in a simple geometric style whilst the lights below the transom are frosted. The windows are divided from each other by piers clad in the granite tiles. The central door is flanked by two windows to either side. To the north-east Bromsgrove street end, there is one window past the north-east door flanked by two side lights, divided by buff tile mullions with scrolled consoles. To the south-west (Bristol Street end) there is one window south of the southern door, then around the curve of the bay to Bristol Street there two further smaller, two-pane windows. The first and second floors are two wings which meet in an ‘L’ shape, the east / west wing faces west to Bristol Street in a bow flanked by Corinthian pilasters, whilst the north / south wing at first continues northwards at right angles from the bay wing, then turns in a gentle curve to the north east to abut 99-102 Bromsgrove Street. The articulation of the upper stories reveals part of the flat roof of the ground floor, and this is screened off with an ironwork balcony in a simple scrolled foliate design. Both first and second floors are rendered in stucco with quoins to corners. The cornice beneath the roof parapet has a moulded frieze of interlocking circles with flowers within, above this is a row of dentils. The upper windows are all four-light sashes. The first floor windows have a triangular pediment above them, except for those in the curved bay to Bristol Street which have no pediment, and the window in the curve of the north-east wing which has a curved pediment. The first floor window pediments are supported by scrolled consoles and have a circular moulding decoration to the frieze. The second storey windows are located directly over those of the first floor, they have no pediments and are not so tall as those of the first floor. There are string courses at the base of window level on the first and second floors. Pairs of scrolled brackets continue the line of the window surrounds below the first floor string course, whilst simpler corbels support the second floor string course, again in line with the window surrounds above. The rear elevation is in red brick with scattered two and four pane windows. Interior: not inspected, but available sources indicate that the ground floor remains subdivided into a public bar, rear lounge and separate games room. This layout reflects the remodelling of 1930, and a fireplace of that date is thought to survive in the main bar. There is a function room on the first floor, along with rooms to let. The second floor has further rooms to let and private accommodation. The basement is a beer cellar.
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Date of photo: 2023	Picture source: Andrew Taylor