Fairways The Grosvenor Hotel

Early 19th-century hotel with a mid-19th-century addition and a late 18th-century cottage. The hotel is constructed of yellow brick with red brick additions, a first-floor tile-hung section, and a slate roof; the cottage is of colourwashed brick with an old plain tile roof. The main hotel is three storeys and five bays, with a projecting porch, a three-bay, two-storey addition to the right, and a lower two-storey, three-bay cottage to the left, linked by a single-storey bay. It has a plinth with a stone offset. The central portico creates a porte-cochère with a rounded front and four stone Doric columns on stone plinths. The columns, linked in pairs, support an entablature with triglyphs and a moulded wooden cornice with modillions, above which is a room with three bowed sashes, 12 panes each side and 16 panes in the centre, a moulded cornice, and a flat roof. It contains an 8-panel double door, radiating fanlight, and sidelights. The slightly projecting end bays have a two-storey arched recess. Each bay features a mid-19th-century tripartite sash under a rubbed brick arch. On the first floor are tall 12-pane sashes also under rubbed brick arches. The second floor has five wide 6-pane sashes. The building has wide flat eaves with paired brackets and corner brackets. The roof is hipped, with stacks on the hips and at the centre of each side’s three bays. To the right is a mid-19th-century 'Market Room' with a plinth and stone offset, and recesses to the end bays with stone arches. The left bay has a 12-pane sash and a stone arch, and the central bay has double glazed doors with stone lintels carved with 'Market Room'. The first floor of the Market Room has five 12-pane sashes and bands of fish-scale tiles. The Market Room roof is hipped to the right, with a stack on the end of the ridge and stacks on the front of the roof between bays. The cottage has a central door with a segmental head, a two-light casement to the left, a 19th-century canted bay, and a three-light segmental head casement to the right. The first floor has a three-light casement with a blind opening in the centre. Toothed eaves top a hipped roof with a central stack. A 15-pane sash is in the link bay. The famous jockey, Tom Cannon, owner and trainer of race horses, lived here.