Wick Hill House Hotel

WICK RISSINGTON - SP 12 SE 1/269 Wick Hill House Hotel GV II Large house now used as a hotel. Basically late C19 but possibly incorporating parts of a C18 house. Orange coursed squared and dressed limestone with cream-coloured limestone quoins. Stone slate and artificial stone slate roofing. Stacks in the same stonework as the main body. Two storeys. Entrance front with gable projecting forwards to the right. Projecting 2-storey porch off-centre left. Four-pane and 2-pane sashes with horns and 2- light casements. Tripartite sash to the first floor of the projecting gable, a segmental surround with keystone and triangular pediment supported on moulded brackets above the central sash. Two round-headed arched entrances to the porch flanked by piers with engaged columns with banded decoration. Entablature between the ground and first floors. Three-light stone-mullioned casement with a transom to the first floor. Pierced parapet. Double C20 part-glazed door with fielded panels at the bottom set back within the porch. Left-hand return; gable with single-storey rectangular bay, projects forwards right. Two-storey bow window off-centre left with gable end to right. Fenestration on the ground floor mostly 8-pane casements/doors with transoms below the upper 2 pairs within narrow double-chamfered surrounds with architraves. Two windows on the ground floor of the left-hand gable inserted C20. Tripartite sash with horns to the rectangular bay right. Tripartite sash with horns and a triangular pediment on moulded brackets over the central window. Three 6-pane sashes with horns and moulded architraves to the left. Three 10-pane glazed doors with transoms towards the top and small balconies with stone standings supported on moulded brackets and low curved cast iron railings to the first floor of the bow window. Large coat of arms with a triangular pediment and three chalices at the centre and the motto 'COMME JE TROUVE' at the bottom and on the left-hand gable at first floor level. Narrow string between floors. Band and moulded eaves cornice between the two gables. Fenestration of the left-hand return comprises 12 and 9-pane sashes with horns. Roof; stepped coped gables with 'gabled' kneelers. Lateral axial and gable-end stacks all with moulded cappings. Interior; fine Adam style plastered ceiling to room with bow window. White marble fireplace and an alcove in the same room. C19 staircase. History; the original house was built in the early C18 and was enlarged by the addition of a south wing before 1775. The house was extensively altered and enlarged after 1875. In 1958 the west wing (the oldest part of the house was gutted by fire). (V.C.H, Glos. Vol VI p115)

Listing NGR: SP1978822255