Rudloe Park Hotel

The Rudloe Park Hotel is a house dating back to approximately 1875, designed by J. Hicks of Redruth for H.R. Pictor, a quarry owner. It’s constructed of small ashlar block walls with ashlar dressings, covered by slate roofs, and features coped gables and ashlar stacks. The building is two stories high with an attic, and includes a four-story tower. It’s built in the High Victorian Gothic style, resembling Fogleigh House in Bath Road, though less elaborate.

The west garden front is symmetrical, with a three-window range dominated by an ornate central projecting canted bay extending through the eaves to a large attic bay topped with a hipped pyramid roof. Moulded bands, a sill course, and eaves detail the facade. Windows are generally of the mullion and transom type, featuring shouldered heads, a pilaster central mullion, and pellet ornament on the transom. A two-light window is on each side, and the canted bay has a 1-3-1 window arrangement. The attic bay has square piers with naturalistic carved capitals dividing the lights, set upon battered plinths, originally connected by pierced balustrading which now survives only on the side lights. A large ridge stack is located to the right of the pyramid roof.

The gabled south end wall features mullion and transom two-light windows to the main floors, and a plainer flush mullion and transom attic window. To the right is a one-window range of single lights with transoms, and a canted bay with a 1-2-1 light arrangement. The window and stringcourse details mirror those on the west front, but this bay has a hipped roof with a dormer. A ridge stack sits to the right of the bay.

The north side, or entrance front, is a complex, asymmetrical elevation linked to the west front by a single-story former conservatory with canted corners, pilaster piers, and stilted pointed heads to the windows, completed by a pierced parapet. To the right is a narrow, three-story section. The tower’s deep-set pointed doorway is flanked by side lights, with piers featuring leaf-carved capitals supporting heavy carved brackets to a first-floor balcony. Pierced roundels are incorporated in the balcony, and a three-light mullion and transom window sits above, similar to those on the west front. Further up, three plain lights are set between heavy brackets to a second-floor balcony, with curved ends and pierced roundels, above a two-story plate-traceried three-light window with a moulded pointed head. A moulded cornice tops the building, followed by a flat parapet with pierced roundels. A large three-light mullion and transom window is positioned to the right, with a string course and sill course under a recessed two-story window; this reaches a dormer gable, featuring a mullion-and-transom lower part and three cusped pointed lights above. An east-end stack is present. To the left, a two-story, three-window service range features two-light windows with shouldered heads to the ground floor windows.

The interior has been altered, but retains a central stair with iron balusters and a tall three-light east-side stair light within an arched Gothic frame.