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Schooner Hotel
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Location8 Northumberland Street, Alnmouth, Northumberland, England
Coordinates 55°23′14″N1°36′44″W / 55.38722°N 1.61222°W / 55.38722; -1.61222
Inaugurated17th century
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The Schooner Hotel & Bar is a Grade II listed 17th century coaching inn and hotel located at 8 Northumberland Street in the coastal village of Alnmouth, Northumberland, England. [1] The hotel lies on the main High Street and is recognizable by its whitewashed walls and black painted shutters. [2] [3] In the 19th century the 32-room hotel had a considerable reputation with a clientele of people such as Charles Dickens, John Wesley, Basil Rathbone, and King George III of Great Britain. [4]

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The Schooner has been in decline for a number of years under the current owners, leading to unprecedented legal action by the Trading Standards department of the local county council. [5]

Architecture

The Schooner Hotel became a Grade II listed building on 31 December 1969. [6] It is a whitewashed building with black shutters, originally built in the 17th century. It was extended in the early 19th century and again towards the end of the 19th century. [6] It is built from tooled squared stone, three storeys high (excluding the cellar), and has 5 + 3 bays. [6] The older section on the left has half-glazed doors with from the 20th century with an old segmental-headed arch at right end. [6] The roof is made from Welsh slate roof, with 2 chimney stacks rebuilt in yellow brick. [6] In the 2010s the rear portion of the hotel was renovated and turned into six separate properties; 3 apartments and 3 townhouses. [7] The land behind the hotel that used to contain the Alnmouth Squash Courts is scheduled for further development into 7 houses. [8] The first request for 8 houses was rejected due to insufficient information about contaminated land and archaeology. [9] The second application was approved. [10] [11]

Haunting

Sixty individual apparitions and more than 3,000 sightings have been recorded, making it (according to The Poltergeist Society of Great Britain) the most haunted hotel in the country. [12] [13] [14]

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