Danescombe Hotel and Attached Front Wall and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1987. Hotel. 1 related planning application.
Danescombe Hotel and Attached Front Wall and Railings
- WRENN ID
- floating-cinder-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1987
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Danescombe Hotel and Attached Front Wall and Railings, Lower Kelly, Calstock, PL18 9RZ
- OS grid reference
- SX 426 689
- Coordinates
- 50.49873, -4.21983
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Danescombe Hotel is a large house, now functioning as a hotel, with an attached front wall and railings. It was built around 1860 and has undergone few alterations since then. The structure is made of rendered stone rubble and features a hipped slate roof with stacks on the sides that have rendered shafts. The building has a double depth plan, with the main rooms located at the front left and right, and a central entrance leading to service rooms at the rear. It is built into the bank at the back and faces the River Tamar.
The exterior of the hotel is three storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window front. All the windows are 19th-century two-light casements. The ground floor features panelled double doors at the centre, with French windows on either side. There is a verandah with a tented roof and a wooden lattice balustrade, complete with a scalloped valance, at both the ground and first floors. The front wall is constructed of rubble and topped with railings that have knob finials, while the stanchions are adorned with trefoil finials.
The interior has not been inspected. The Danescombe Hotel is prominently situated on the bank of the River Tamar and was built by the Edgcumbe family of Cotehele. It is visible from the Chapel of St George and St Thomas a Becket.
Local climate
Danescombe Hotel and Attached Front Wall and Railings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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.
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- No sale records on file
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