Burleigh Court Hotel Including Garden Steps And Gateway

SO 8601-8701 MINCHINHAMPTON BURLEIGH

16/222 Burleigh Court Hotel (previously listed as Burleigh Court) 28.6.60 including garden steps and gateway

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Former large detached house, now hotel. c1800; altered c1930 by Clough Williams-Ellis. Ashlar limestone; ashlar chimneys; Welsh slate roof. Three-storey U-plan with single-storey courtyard infill. Attached former stables at west end, now incorporated into hotel. South (garden) front: symmetrical with fenestration 1:2:1:2:1. Two windows in 2 full-height segmental bows. Generally 12-pane sashes to ground and middle floors, 9-pane to upper floor. Most ground floor windows altered to later C19 glazed doors. Plain sill bands and wider middle floor level band. Eaves cornice with blocking course. Hipped roof with ridge-mounted chimneys having moulded caps. Lower single-storey linking section to left with rear of former stable range beyond. Adjoining round fronted stone steps leading to higher level of garden, classical gate piers and open balustrading all part of Williams-Ellis's improvements. East end: 3-window fenestration, narrow central sashes and outer tripartite sashes. North (entrance) front: 3-window fenestration to main range with single-window to each of projecting wings, all sashes as to south front. Central tripartite sash to middle and upper floors, ground floor obscured by single-storey infill in matching style with sash windows and off-centre Tuscan pedimented porch in antis, recessed glazed doorway flanked by sashes. Stable range to right has pair of large gate piers to small yard. Interior: cornices and doorcases are mostly of c1800. Stick balusters to plain staircase. Panelled room in single-storey part possibly by Williams-Ellis. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: SO8666401881