Bishop'S Court Hotel

Bishop's Court Hotel is a large detached villa, originally known as Normount, built in 1844 and now operating as a hotel. The house is constructed of plastered material with a slate roof and stacks featuring rendered shafts with projecting moulded cornices. It is designed in a Neo-classical style.

The main block is rectangular, with an entrance on the west side leading into a corridor and a rising staircase to the north. A north-east service wing is also present. Extensive additions, mainly detached, have been made to accommodate hotel use.

The west front has a 1:3-bay arrangement, with the left-hand bay likely an addition. Rusticated quoins, a moulded cornice below a blocking course, and a moulded string at first floor level are visible. The central bay projects forward under a parapet with rusticated quoins and a Doric porch featuring distyle columns in antis, triglyphs, and guttae. The porch contains a two-leaf panelled door and a segmental-headed fanlight with spider's web glazing bars. The ground floor windows have moulded architraves, pediments on consoles, and sill blocks, with secondary two-pane sashes, although the right-hand window is blind with Venetian shutters. The left-hand bay projects and features matching windows. The right return elevation, facing the garden, has five bays, with the central three under a pediment and a projecting ground floor featuring a balustraded parapet and three high-transomed French windows divided by Ionic pilasters with paired pilasters to the left and right. A balcony is positioned above the centre French windows on the first floor. The outer bays mirror the west front. The east front displays a pediment over the centre three bays, with the ground floor built out as a loggia, now glazed in and with a balustraded parapet.

The interior retains plaster cornices, original chimneypieces including a classical white marble example with coloured marble panels, a staircase with turned balusters and a ramped mahogany handrail, and two-panel mahogany doors. The original terraced garden has been altered to suit hotel use.