Bloomfield House

Bloomfield House is a house, now a hotel, likely completed around 1800. It is thought to have been designed by Thomas Baldwin. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar with a slate roof. It is a long, shallow range with an entrance on the right side facing south, leading to an oval entrance hall and a corresponding shallow bow at the rear, housing the staircase hall.

The house has two storeys, an attic, and a basement, with four bays. The front elevation features various sash windows; the ground floor has a four-pane sash with an iron balconette, plain twelve-pane sashes in a projecting bow, and a deep fifteen-pane sash to the balcony above the porch. Above these are twelve-pane sashes. The porch has a pair of two-panel doors and a plain fanlight, framed by panelled pilasters with an impost band and flanking rosettes featuring hanging corn husks, a characteristic detail of Baldwin’s work. There is access to a stone landing and a flight of six plus one stone steps, with an open stone balustrade and square piers. The basement has two twelve-pane sashes and a glazed door. A sill band runs across the first floor, and the entire front is topped by a lintel, frieze, cornice, attic and parapet with five large stone urns. A short front to the road has two blind lights at each floor; painted glazing bars simulate glazing at the first-floor level, while at ground floor, trompe l'oeil drapes are depicted. The attic and basement are plain, with two terminal urns. The rear elevation features three pairs of inset flat pilasters with palmette capitals at frieze level, and a broad staircase bow toward the left. The upper levels have two four-pane sashes with balconettes. A deep canted bay extends across three levels, with a balcony on the first floor, and is flanked by two terminal urns. The rear has most windows as twelve-pane sashes, but the bow includes four-pane windows above tripartite sashes, with French casements to the divided iron staircase at ground floor level. The basement has four two-light casements. Pilasters spring from a platband above the basement level and embrace two floors. The rear entablature is similar to the front, with five terminal urns. The interior has not been inspected, but is noted to be of interest.