The Lowenac Hotel

CAMBORNE BASSET ROAD SW 63 NW (west side) 10/19 No.34 (The Lowenac Hotel) GV II House, now hotel. Said to be 1845; altered and extended. Stucco, presumably on rubble, modern tiled roof. Double-pile plan, now with modern entrance vestibule at left end. Two storeys; symmetrical 4-bay facade has corner pilasters and 4-pane sashed windows with moulded architraves, those at ground floor taller and with cornices on consoles; 2- span hipped roof with projecting eaves, no chimneys. Modern single-storey entrance vestibule at left end not of special interest. Rear has inter alia a single-storey canted bay and a round-headed stairwindow; modern extension not of special interest. Interior: original front door at left end with set-in fluted columns, margin glazing and fanlight with intersecting tracery; axial hallway; elaborate moulded plaster decoration in hallway and principal rooms including fluted Corinthian pilasters, foliated modillions, cornices with egg-and-dart, acanthus and vine, and fine undercut ribbon and lily decoration; front rooms connected by large doorway with elaborate architrave, flanked by curved doorways in rounded corners; large open-well staircase with open string, scrolled brackets, 2 slender turned balusters per tread, wreathed handrail

Listing NGR: SW6457739709