Kedleston Hotel

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SK 34 SW 3/95

PARISH OF QUARNDON KEDLESTON ROAD (East Side) Kedleston Hotel

(Formerly listed as Bath Farm (Kedleston Hotel)

13.2.67

GV II*

Hotel. 1760-2 by Robert Adam. Red brick, hipped slate roof with two brick ridge stacks, one truncated. First floor and sill bands. Moulded stone eaves band. Three storeys, U-plan, with short single storey wings. South elevation of 3-5-3 bays. Central projecting feature has Doric columns, flanking a tripartite C20 window, formerly a door. Entablature and parapet above, partly balustraded, bracketed pediment above. To the left and right, two glazing bar sashes under gauged brick lintels. Four similar glazing bar sashes above either side of a central glazing bar sash. Five similar but smaller sashes above again, the centre one with moulded surround.

Three bay single storey wings on either side with coped parapets. Each has a central round-arched doorway, now a window, with key and impost blocks, flanked by glazing bar sashes under gauged brick lintels. South elevations mostly with glazing bar sashes. Rear elevation has deeply recessed centre filled in on the ground floor by a C20 glazed entrance. Ground floor room on the west side has an early C18 chimneypiece, possibly re-used from earlier Kedleston Hall. The hotel was built by the Curzons for visitors to the sulphur baths and Kedleston Hall.

Source: There is a drawing of the main elevation amongst the Adam drawings in the Soane Museum.

Listing NGR: SK3262040580