Bishopstrow House Hotel

Bishopstrow House Hotel is a detached house, now functioning as a hotel, built in 1817 by John Pinch the Elder of Bath for William Temple. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar and features a Welsh slate mansard roof, along with ashlar stacks that have moulded cappings. It is designed in the Regency style and has two storeys with a symmetrical front that includes five 12-pane sash windows. The central porch is supported by two fluted Ionic columns and pilasters, featuring double doors with six fielded panels. The central bay projects slightly, with two sash windows on either side. The first floor has five sash windows and a moulded stone cornice above the blocking course. There are four dormers on the roof with casement windows.

The left side of the building, which faces the garden, features a central two-storey bow with three sash windows and one sash window on either side, along with a cornice and blocking course. The right side is built in English garden wall bond brick and includes sash and casement windows, with a single-bay late 19th-century addition in stucco that has sash windows on three floors. The rear of the house has a round-arched stair window on the left, additional sash windows, and a 20th-century conservatory. The left range is brick with segmental-headed 16-pane sash windows.

Inside, the entrance hall features elliptical-arched openings, fluted door and window architraves with panelled reveals and paterae or rosettes, and mahogany doors with six fielded panels. The open-well staircase has a wrought iron balustrade and a ramped mahogany handrail, which is wreathed at the bottom. The stair ceiling has a guilloche frieze with a central rosette. The drawing room includes a marble fireplace surround with Ionic columns and an anthemion ceiling frieze with a rosette.

To the right of the main building is an early 19th-century L-plan stable block, also in English garden wall bond brick with a slate roof. The hotel is currently undergoing extensive renovation and conversion for accommodation as of April 1985. This house was built to replace the 17th-century Bishopstrow House, which was located to the south of the road and was partly destroyed by fire around 1800. The main gardens remain to the south of the road and are connected by a tunnel under the A36.