Loventor

A country house, now operating as a hotel, dating to the late 16th century, with 18th-century wings remodelled in the early 19th century. The original core of the house is the north-east range, constructed of roughcast stone rubble, topped with a slate roof with gabled ends. It features a long, five-window façade. Windows are 18th-century, comprising two, three and four-light casements with glazing bars. A gabled two-storey porch is located to the left of centre, housing a round-arched doorway with a 20th-century casement above. The inner doorway to the cross passage has a heavy, moulded wooden doorframe and an original moulded and nail-studded panelled door. A similar doorframe exists at the opposite end of the cross passage, and a round-arched stone porch is now incorporated within the building; the rear porch can be seen in a yard formed by the addition of two 18th-century wings. These wings are of roughcast stone with low-pitched hipped slate roofs, featuring paired brackets to the eaves soffit. The south front of the wings consists of seven bays with sash windows and glazing bars. A central doorway is accessed via a porch with Tuscan columns, a pulvinated frieze and pediment, and a bolection-moulded door. The west elevation shows a 1:4:1 bay arrangement of sash windows with glazing bars. Rendered chimney stacks with cornices are present, one at the gable end of the original house. Inside, a ground floor room contains a niche with a segmental arch and fluted pilasters, alongside a moulded plaster cornice. Two rooms feature 18th-century chimney pieces and moulded plaster cornices, one with a frieze. An 18th-century staircase has two balusters per tread, a moulded handrail, and ramped up to column newels.