Queens Hotel, Wilmslow Road, Alderley Edge

Construction is to begin shortly. Cost nearly £4000. Architect not given [Builder 2 June 1844 p282]

Messrs Starkey and Cuffley are the architects who superintended the erection of the new hotel, at Alderley, just completed. [Manchester Courier 31 May 1845 Page 8]

LISTING TEXT - Hotel: 1844 for the London and North-Western Railway Co. and extended later in C19. Flemish bond red brick with yellow and blue brick dressings and buff sandstone surrounds. Welsh slate roof. 3-storey symmetrical 3-bay front. End bays have 3-light mullioned and transomed windows and a 2-light mullioned window in the top storey. The end bays have shaped stone-coped gables with pointed finials. Central projecting porch with a semi-circular headed openings on 3 sides, to the front it is flanked by strip pilasters and the hotel name in the frieze; above is a 2-light window and a single light with a stone-coped semi-circular head on the eaves. The south front has 17 bays of which the 8 to the right are additions. To the left are stone-coped gable half dormers and on the first floor, semi-circular headed windows with heavy glazing bars with flat and segmental pediments opening onto balconies with iron balustrades. The railway built the hotel for £6,000 as part of their scheme to encourage wealthy commuters to come to live on the Edge and it remains an early and unaltered railway hotel.

Reference    Manchester Guardian Saturday 27 April 1844 Page 7 (Contracts)
Reference    Builder 2 June 1844 Page 282
Reference    Manchester Courier 31 May 1845 page 8