29 Market Street, Tamworth, B79 7LR
Albion Road, Marden, TN12 9DT
Riviera Centre, Torquay
11-13 April 2025
23 Haltwhistle Road, South Woodham Ferrers, CM3 5ZA
Unit 11, Valley Point Industrial Estate, Beddington Farm Road, Beddington, CR0 4WP
Argyle Place, Love Road, Lowestoft, NR32 2NZ
116, Foregate Street, Chester, Chester, CH1 2HH
Drinkers are welcome, it is not required to buy a meal
Formerly the Pearl Assurance offices, this Rosewood hotel has reopened at the end of 2013 after an extensive refit. Part of the complex, the Holborn Dining Room, with its own street entrance, is a large restaurant space with a bar area where drinkers are welcome and draught beers are available. Swish, upmarket, no real ale. Draught Camden Gentleman's Wit and Hells Bottled beers include Harviestoun Old Engine Oil, Meantime London Lager and Partizan Pale Ale. Mind your wallets: £7+ including service.
Historic Interest
Grade II listing:- Office block. Central block, 1912-19 by C Newman; east block, 1929-30 by P Moncton; south-east extension, 1954-6 by Bates & Sinning; west block, 1959-60 by Bates & Sinning. Portland stone with granite, rusticated podium. Steep slated roof. Irregular plan ranged round central courtyard. EXTERIOR: main facade 5 storeys, attics and 2 storeys of dormers in Edwardian Baroque style. Symmetrical design with projecting end and central bays, windows 1:7:1:7:1. Engaged Ionic columns and pilasters rise through 2nd-4th floors carrying entablature. Round arched entrance with console-keystone and flanked by elaborate bracketed lanterns in 2 groups of 3; bronze gates. Ground floor windows architraved with rusticated keystones, 1st floor round-headed architraved, 2nd square-headed architraved, 3rd with cartouche keys and cast-iron balconies, 4th are oculi. Central entrance bay flanked by paired columns with broken segmental pediment; 2 stage tower above with leaded dome carried by Ionic engaged columns. End bays with smaller leaded domes. INTERIOR: has good features including ground floor cash hall and marble balustraded staircase. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached balustraded parapets to basement areas.
Holborn Dining Room, London
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