The Gainsborough House Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1980. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.

The Gainsborough House Hotel

WRENN ID
hallowed-arch-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wyre Forest
Constituency
Wyre Forest MP: Mark Garnier (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 January 1980
Type
Hotel
Address
The Gainsborough House Hotel, Bewdley Hill, Kidderminster, DY11 6BS
OS grid reference
SO 819 762
Coordinates
52.3841, -2.26697
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Gainsborough House Hotel is an early 19th-century building located on Bewdley Hill. It is two storeys high and has a rendered exterior with a new hipped roof. The front features three hung sash windows with glazing bars and wooden cases on the upper floor, and two windows on the ground floor. There is a paired columned porch leading to a modern door set in a round-headed doorway, which is topped by an ornamental semi-circular fanlight. The building has a wide eaves overhang. There are modern extensions to the left and rear of the hotel.

Local climate

The Gainsborough House Hotel receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

See all similar buildings →

this building   1 similar   nearby listed buildings

Nearby listed buildings

  1. 6 and 7, Blakebrook Grade II 395 m
  2. Flats the Limes Grade II 415 m
  3. Marlborough House Grade II 499 m
  4. Church of St John the Baptist Grade II 508 m
  5. 18 and 19, Blakebrook Grade II 538 m
  6. Woodfield House Grade II 591 m
  7. Hampton House White Lodge Grade II 602 m
  8. The School Hall at Woodfield Middle School Grade II 710 m
  9. Fountain Monument to Richard Eve Grade II 785 m
  10. Former Kidderminster General Hospital including revetment and front area railings to south west Grade II 918 m