Springfield House Hotel

SO 8802-8902 CHALFORD COWCOMBE HIL (south side)

13/34 Springfield House Hotel (previously listed as Springfield House, High Street) 28.6.60

II

Detached house, now hotel. 1838. Ashlar and coursed rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys; Welsh slate roof. Two-storey; smaller 2-storey rear range. Front: 3-window fenestration. Central upper floor tripartite sash, outer lights with marginal glazing bars; outer upper floor 12-pane sashes. Later Cl9 glazed doors to ground floor, all windows with moulded architraves and louvred shutters. Central round arched doorway and flanking round arched windows with moulded architraves and imposts; 6-panel reeded door with fanlight. Tetrastyle Ionic porch with flat roof. Plain upper floor level band continued over slight central break forward and plain corner pilasters; stucco eaves cornice. Low hipped roof with projecting eaves. Sides: 2-window fenestration as to front, south side in coursed rubble. Lower rear range with 12 and 16-pane sashes. Through passage has doorway at south end with segmental arched head and jambs adapted from mid C17 doorway with lozenges in spandrels, this presumably indicating an earlier building on the site; 6-panel door and architraves are early C19. Interior: fine hall with central round archway on paired detached Ionic columns. Curved staircase beyond has decorative balusters and fine plaster ceiling; high-level round arched stair sash with marginal glazing bars. House recorded as 'newly erected' in 1838 for Handy and Jesse Davis, clothiers. (N.M. Herbert, 'Bisley' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 4-40; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: SO8967002452