Corinium Court Hotel And Restaurant

This is a probable former inn, dating to the mid-to-late 17th century, which was refronted in the late 18th century and subsequently altered. It now functions as a hotel and offices. The front is constructed of limestone ashlar, while the rear is of coursed squared limestone rubble and render. The roof covering is not visible at the front, but concrete tiles are present on the rear range. There are an ashlar and brick stack on the left end of the building, and an external rear axial stack on the front range, now blocked.

The building consists of four ranges arranged around a courtyard, accessible via a carriage entrance through the front range. The front range has a single bay recessed to the centre right, and presents a two-story, six-window elevation. The first floor has six 6/6-pane sash windows in plain reveals with stone cills. The ground floor has four similar windows. A round-headed former doorway on the far right now has a fanlight and a piece of reused late 18th-century glazing forming a fixed window (number 12). The carriage entrance is flanked by a pair of large doors, each made of nine panels with a 4-centred arched head. A 6-panel door is situated within a round-headed opening with a fanlight to the left (number 14). Architectural details include an ashlar plinth, a band course above the first floor, a moulded stone cornice, and a coped parapet. Lead down pipes are present on the left and right sides, with moulded lead hoppers, except for the bottom length of each.

The interior features two similar staircases (also comparable to number 51 Coxwell Street). The main staircase, located in number 14, runs from the ground to the first floor and is an early to mid 18th-century well staircase, with three turned balusters per tread, shaped tread ends, a long curtail step, a ridged and corniced handrail, and responding dado panelling that ramps up to the half and first-floor landings. A secondary staircase, now in number 12, is similar in design, with two turned balusters per tread, responding dado panelling at the winders, and considerable 19th and 20th-century reconstruction from the first to the second floors. Number 12 includes a small 19th-century closed-string stick-baluster staircase to the rear, while number 14 has a 20th-century back staircase.

A panelled room on the ground floor front left (number 14) is an early to mid-18th century design, with raised and fielded panels above and below a moulded dado rail, a modillion cornice, reeded pilasters with moulded cornices, and individual sections of a pulvinated frieze, visually supporting boxed-out beams with panelled soffits. Late 18th-century joinery is visible within the splayed window reveals, dating from the refronting. A late 19th/early 20th-century fireplace is also present. The interiors of rooms in number 12 were not inspected, while number 14 has 19th-century stone fireplaces in its first-floor rooms, and a heavily enriched late 19th-century fireplace in the ground floor rear. Number 14 has plastered beams with broad chamfers and ogee stops over the stairs and in corridors on the first and ground floors. Broader chamfers with simpler stops are found in the ground-floor rear.