Langdon Court Hotel

SX 54 NW WEMBURY LANGDON 8/185 29/3/60 Langdon Court Hotel (formerly listed as Langdon Court)

GV II*

Country house, now used as an hotel. The medieval house was rebuilt in 1577. Remodelled in 1707 and altered and extended circa 1877. Rough ashlar. Slate roof. The original house had projecting wings left and right. During the 1707 remodelling a new front filled in between the wings and the house is now square on plan around a small central courtyard. Two storeys, attic and cellar. Granite string course at first floor level. West front 2:3:2 bays. Gabled either end with ball finial and sundial. Centre three bays have heavy modillion cornice. Sash windows with glazing bars some retaining thick glazing bars, stone arches with keystones, centre first floor in rusticated architraves with grotesque mask keystone. Ground floor granite mullion/transom windows. Blocked central doorway with two pairs of pilasters, entablature with large segmental pediment with pineapple finials and quartered arms of the Calmady and Courtney families in the tympanum. Similar south elevation but 2:1:3:1:2 bays. Third and seventh bay has rusticated window architraves similar to west font, and have doorways below in moulded architraves with mask keystones and broken segmental pediments on console brackets. Good early C18 lead rainwater heads and drainpipe on south side. The east front appears to be largely C19, five bays and with two-storeyed gabled porch at the centre. The north front is asymmetrical the centre gabled with range of sashes and stone mullion windows in segmentally headed openings. Late C19 crenellated tower on the north west corner with octagonal stair turret. C19 brick chimney stacks, and C20 dormers. Interior: much altered in C19, but retains early C18 open well staircase with twisted balusters, heavy hand rail ramp up at corners, carved scroll brackets and dado panelling. Two early C18 dog-leg secondary staircases. Some bolection panelling with broken scroll pediment overdoors and cornice. Various chimneypieces. Brick vaulted cellar on granite piers - circa early C18. Langdon was the Seat of the Calmadys. Vincent Calmady a lawyer purchased the property from the crown in 1555 and rebuilt the medieval house in 1577. Josias Calmady remodelled it in 1707. The Calmadys sold Langdon in 1875. Transactions of the Devonshire Association 1910 Vol 42 page 522.

Listing NGR: SX5148149722