Foxton Family Hotel.

Manawatu Herald, 8 March 1892, Page 2

Foxton Family Hotel.

For some considerable time- Mr Border has been conducting his business under difjjoulty for want of proper accommodation, 'but at last he has a building which is a credit to the town. The new. hotel is almost completed, and Mr Border is busily engaged in seeing to the furnishing

The main building covers a space outside of fifty six feet by 87 feet, and is thirty two feet high. The additional rooms cover another fifty feet by thirty seven feet and the walls are thirteen feet in heighth. The design, though plain, is sufficiantly broken and ' picked out ' by the

painter, and looks very well. The 'main entrance is, of course, on the Main stre^ and opens on to a passage seven feet in wMth. To the right is the commercial room 16ft x 16ft, and past this meets a passage leading from the north side of the building; Up this side passage the stairs start for the rooms over the lower ones, and under the stairs-, to tltt left- of the northern door is fitted a small lavatory. To the left of the main passage is- n, bar parlor 18ft x 10ft on to which the bar opens, and opposite the main entrance is the dining room. A door to the left of the passage encloses this portion of the building away from the bar. The dining room is the best in the town, measuring 28ft Oin x 28ffc, and is well lighted. Off the dining loom is a convenient kitchen 28ft x 16ft, and then again a couple of servant's bedrooms. Returning again to the front of the ,building, just past the .main entrance and the parlor is the bar, being at the extreme left hand corner of the block, and is 18ft by lGffc from the bar, another parlour adjoining 16ft x 10ft is served, as well as the large hall formed by the widening of the passage from the south side en'entrance, which being seven feet wide at the door widens out to over eleven feet at the junction of the bar and parlors. A door connects this space again with the passage from the main entrance. The bftr is thus capable of serving four distinct compartments. The south passage gives entrance to the billiard room, 27ft x 28ft, which is well lighted and lofty. A door gives a back exit to the rear of the building, which is laid down in concrete. At the back of the billiard room are a number of small bedrooms as well as one measuring 17ft by Bft 9in. The rooms down stairs are all thirteen feet high in the clear. livery room find passage downstairs is dadoed.

Upstairs all the rooms are eleven feet high in the clear, and comprise two parlors, 16ft x IGft and 12ffc x 10ft, and six bedrooms ranging from 12ft Oin x lGft, 10ft by lGffc, lift x Bft Oin, and lOtt Gin x Bft. There is also* a hath room and w.c. 10ft Cm x 7ft, and a staircase leading direct outside.

Mr Border is furnishing the house in keeping with the building, the dining voom being covered with oilcloth, and the passages with linoleum. The billiard table from the,old house, one of Alcook's very best, is undergoing a complete overhaul, and being recovered. The upstairs rooms are all carpeted, and the front parlour has a new suite of furniture of a very handsome design, and over the fire place there is a superior looking-glass. The other rooms are not yci turnished, Mr Border having only just got in. The building was erected by Mr Thomas Orr, from the plans and specifications of Mr Chatfield. Mr J. }\\ Liddell has occupied the position of clerk of the works. The painting and papering has been undertakenby Mr F. E. Jenks. The whole of the woodwork, with the exception of the* ceilin «c, bus been oiled, coated with spuit -varnish and finished with' copal varnish. The wallpapers were "all selected by Mr Jenks and are all sanitary papers, and of the newest designs. The whole work appears to have been carefully done and though the Architect has not as yet formally passed the contract, there is little doubt about his doing so. What work, in the way of furnishing, that could be done in the place, has been given to Mr Jukes, who is j working at the upholstering and polishing. The licensing committee at their quarterly meeting will be asked to agree to the transfer of the license now held, to these new premises and there is not likely to be a refusal. The insistance of the Committee has resulted in a very good addition being made to the buildings in the town.