Rose and Crown Hotel, Tring, Hertfordshire
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Rose and Crown Hotel, Tring, Hertfordshire
Image: © Gerald Massey Taken: 3 Jul 2009
Another Tring edifice in the distinctive tudoresque style - timber framing, latticed bay windows, steep pitched roof, ornate chimneys and, usually, tile-hung walls - of architect William Huckvale (1848-1936). The Rose and Crown Hotel was erected in 1905 on the site of a much more discrete Tudor-cum-18th posting house inn, its principal purpose being to house the guests of Lord Rothschild (Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840-1915) ) who were not accommodated in the nearby family mansion at Tring Park. Huckvale usually pulls it off with his smaller tudoresque creations but not, I think, in the case of the somewhat gaudy Rose and Crown - "architecturally deplorable" according to Pevsner - but it certainly can't be missed!
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Image Location
Latitude
51.793787
Longitude
-0.659584