Lygon Arms Hotel

LYGON ARMS HOTEL

Hotel dating from the early 17th century, restored in the early 20th century and extended in 1910 by C E Bateman. The building is constructed of squared limestone with a roof of stone slate and Welsh slate.

The main facade is three storeys with an attic. It features two outer projecting gabled wings with two gables flanking a recessed centre section. The windows have rebated and chamfered mullions with transoms on all floors except the attic. Many windows are early 20th-century restorations replacing the original sashes.

The left-hand west cross-wing displays four-light windows on the ground and first floors, a three-light window on the third floor, and a two-light attic window. Below the left-hand central gable are two two-light windows on each floor (except the attic, which has a single three-light window). The right-hand gable is similarly proportioned except the ground floor has a three-light window to the right of a doorway. The right-hand cross-wing has two two-light windows on each floor with a single two-light window in the attic. The doorway has an elliptical head and is flanked by tapering pilasters. Above the cornice are finials and carved strapwork. The frieze is decorated with strapwork and carries an inscription with the date 1620 and the names John and Ursula Treavis. The chimneys flanking the right-hand central gable have diagonal caps, while those of the left-hand gabled wing have square caps.

To the right are Bateman's additions. The dining room is lit by two bay windows: the left-hand one is canted with a parapet, and the right-hand one is square and gabled. Between them is a window with two trefoiled lights. A projecting wing to the right has mullioned windows and a moulded doorway with canted head at its left. Adjacent to the right is a probably 18th-century former house incorporated into the hotel in the early 20th century. It is two bays wide with windows having plain reveals except for the ground floor right window, which is a 20th-century addition with mullions and transoms. It has two attic dormers, a blocked central chamfered doorway, gable copings, and chimneys. A wing at the rear, dating to 1907 and 1911, has gables and mullioned windows.

Interior features include timber-framed partition walls and exposed ceiling beams. To the left of the entrance is a former kitchen with a wide inglenook fireplace. To the right of the entrance is a room with a fireplace with canted head, lined with square panelling from Babington Hall in Denby. The dining room by Bateman has a ribbed plaster barrel vault, an east gallery reached by a reused 17th-century stair, and a stone fireplace removed from a house at Abbey Church. On the first floor is the Cromwell Room on the east side of the main block, featuring a fireplace with canted head, Corinthian pilasters, strapwork carving, and an ornamented plaster frieze and ceiling, with walls lined in square panelling. A room to its west has similar panelling, a fireplace with canted head, and a plastered beam decorated with vine-scroll ornament.