The Priory Hotel

The Priory Hotel is a detached house, dating from around 1840, with a significant extension completed in 1996. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with a double-pitched slate roof and octagonal stone shafts to the moulded ridge stacks. The house originally had a double-depth plan, with 20th-century additions to either side.

The original part of the house is a four-bay front located between the modern additions. It has a coped parapet above which two projecting, shouldered gables rise, each topped with octagonal stone finials. The set-back ranges to the left and centre have a moulded string course below the parapet. The 20th-century additions include a narrow, three-storey range to the left, featuring small lancet windows to the upper floors, some with pointed arched hoodmoulds, and flat arched recesses with sunk spandrels. A gabled range to the left of centre incorporates a hip-roofed oriel window with a single Tudor-arched light to each facet. Below the oriel is a label mould over a flat arched recess with sunk spandrels, above a three-light Tudor-arched first floor window and a three-light ground floor window, both with flat arches. The central, two-storey entrance range has a flat arched recess above a single light first floor window and a projecting gabled porch with a chamfered Tudor arched opening. A larger, gabled range to the right has a label mould with a pierced quatrefoil in the apex, over a three-light stone mullioned and transomed first floor window, and a canted ground floor bay with a parapet of pierced triangles over tall Tudor arched windows (two to front) situated in recesses with sunk spandrels. A modern extension from 1996 adds further bays with casement windows, gables, and a chimney stack with three cylindrical shafts.

The interior has not been inspected. The building is an example of the 'Tudorbethan' style, a romantic adaptation of a style previously used for institutional buildings, now applied to a domestic setting, reminiscent of the work of James Wilson. It served as a boys’ boarding school from 1962 and subsequently became a hotel in 1969. Earlier extensions occurred in 1972 and 1984, details of which are documented in Bath City Council planning files.