Weston Hall Hotel And Attched Gatepiers

NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH WESTON LANE SP38NE (North side) Weston-in-Arden 5/82 Weston Hall Hotel and attached 01/07/49 gatepiers (Formerly listed as Weston Hall) - II

Country house, now hotel. Late C16/early C17. Restored, altered and large wing added dated 1893. Sandstone ashlar with moulded plinth and string courses. Late C20 tile roofs have coped gable parapets with moulded kneelers; lateral, end and ridge stacks, probably mostly of 1893, have volutes, pilaster strips and moulded cornices. U-plan extended to F-plan on left. 2 storeys and attic. Main block of 1-3-1 bays. Symmetrical, with 3 large gables. C19/C20 half-glazed door and 2 moulded stone panels above, in C19 run-out moulded surround. Stone mullioned and transomed windows, renewed on left. Centre and cross windows; wings have 4-light windows. Gables have 3-light windows with moulded cornices. Right return side has twin gables. 4-light windows, boarded up on left on first floor. Late C19 bow window on right on ground floor. Gables have 3-light mullioned windows. Left return side has canted bay abutting wing. Wing is 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. Large flat-roofed porch across third bay has half-glazed door in Elizabethan-style surround with ornamented pilasters and pedestals, cartouche and strapwork cresting. 3-light mullioned window to right and above. Centre has 4-light windows and large gabled dormer with mullioned window. Left bay has blank ground floor and 3-light window above. Rear is altered. Interior has altered open-well staircase with turned balusters and soffit of re-used C17 panelling. Hall fireplace is late C19 but has Jacobean carved arcaded panels in overmantel and turned and carved shafts. Room to right has elaborate carved Rococo style fireplace. Much altered late C19. The amateur sculptor Richard Hayward lived at Weston Hall. Gatepiers attached to outer corners have moulded plinth and cornice, and hemispherical tops. (VCH: Warwickshire, Vol VI, pp48-49; Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p468)

Listing NGR: SP3857087329