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View of the front elevation of five-storey terraced house 11 Granville Place, Fitzrovia. Number 11 had formerly been the Claremont Hotel. Granville Place was named after Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (1815 – 1891), a prominent Victorian politician.
Joseph Mortimer Granville (4 May 1833, Devonport – 23 November 1900, London) was an English physician, author and inventor known for having first patented the electromechanical vibrator for relief of muscle aches, exclusively for male patients.
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A terrace turned hotel built 1867-1869 to the designs of E W Pugin, with a series of later additions and alterations.
A terrace turned hotel built 1867-1869 to the designs of E W Pugin (1834-1875), with a series of later additions and alterations from the late C19 and C20. The west end was built in 2004, occupying the site of the previous wing of the hotel destroyed in 1940. MATERIALS: stock brick and slate roof with stone dressings and balconies, additional cast-...
Ramsgate emerged as a popular seaside resort from the mid-C18, its growth at this time accelerated by road improvements and faster sea passage offered by hoys, packets and steamers. The town saw significant investment in the early C19 and Ramsgate’s importance into the 1820s is attested by its patronage by the British and European royal families an...
The former Granville Hotel on Victoria Parade is listed for the following principal reasons: Architectural interest: * as a major secular building by Edward Welby Pugin, a work of great architectural ambition built in a varied and well-executed Gothic Revival style; * for the impressive surviving ensemble of grand ground-floor public rooms which se...
Nov 23, 2018 · A few years ago I published a paper (available open access here) on the anti-temperance writings of Joseph Mortimer Granville (1833-1900), a Victorian doctor and writer who died on this day.
Mar 30, 2015 · Mortimer House, Clifton. An update on ST5773 : Mortimer House, Clifton Down Road, Bristol. Archive Link explains that "this world-class landmark has been the subject of a comprehensive restoration programme throughout 2013/14, returning the house to its former glory.
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Mortimer may not have a stately home or many of the thatched and ornately half-timbered cottages of a picturebook village but it has its share of interesting houses of various periods. In the early 1930s Wern Cottage in Mortimer Lane was a dilapidated building which had
