Hawkstone Park Hotel

WESTON-UNDER- WESTON SJ 5629-5729 REDCASTLE C.P. 16/199 Hawkstone Park - Hotel (Formerly listed as Hawkstone 28.10.60 Hotel including gate piers at sides) - II Inn, now hotel. Circa 1790 for Sir Richard Hill with considerable later additions and alterations. Rendered brick; hipped slate roof with ridge and end stacks. Original main block of 2:3:2 bays, centre section forming slight pedimented break, with flanking service wings; extensive C19 and C20 additions to front, rear and right including prominent late C20 flat-roofed 2-storey projection of 7 bays to front of main block. 3 storeys with 2-storey service wings; glazing bar sashes visible to second floor of main block with Hill family coat-of-arms above centre window. One-bay service wings have Venetian window on ground floor and Diocletian window on first floor, Venetian window of right wing mutilated and that to left wing removed when C20 addition built to front. Interior: much altered late C20 but retains part of late C18 staircase with several balusters replaced; ceiling friezes to C19 additions largely concealed by late C20 polystyrene tiles. Re-set late C18 gate piers, approximately 80m to east of main front, with entablature dismantled and removed to side of road,are not included in this list. Although considerably altered,especially in late C20, the hotel has the historic interest of having been built to accommodate early visitors to Hawkstone Park. C20 additions are not of special architectural interest. B.0.E. p.312; C.L. (June 10, 1958) p.72.

Listing NGR: SJ5682729056