Bowden Hall Hotel

SO 81 NE UPTON ST LEONARDS BONDEND

3/170 Bowden Hall Hotel (previously listed as Bowden Hall and stables) 20.10.70 II

Former large country house; now hotel with attached former stables. 1770; altered and enlarged c.1970. Brick; stucco facing; brick chimneys; Welsh slate roof. Rectangular block; 3-storey; attached 2-storey service wing to rear linking with 2- storey former stable block to north west. South west front: three 3-storey bows with parapet roof, bow to right being C20 addition; 3 sashes at each level to each bow, plate glass C19 to ground and middle floors, 6-pane C18 to upper floor; projecting curved balcony at middle floor level with iron railings of C19; mutilated stone modillion parapet cornice; plain bands at floor levels. North west entrance front: 3-window sash fenestration, altered on ground floor, all C19 plate glass except upper floor left C20 casement; central projecting pedimented Ionic porch; C20 panelled doors; small round arched niche to right now blocked but formerly with narrow C19 sash; plain band at middle floor level; chamfered quoins to left; projecting pilaster to right; off- centre roof light in hipped roof. Service wing projects to left linking with side of C-plan stables and coach house; sash fenestration, altered in stable block but retaining original plain architraves; hipped roof above modillion eaves to stables with chamfered quoins; central to stable block attached late C19 single-storey room with hipped roof, vent louvres in gablet and cambered-arched mullioned and transomed window with stained glass to each face - possibly former Eton Fives court recorded in Birchall diaries. South east: C20 elevation to hotel addition replacing former C19 conservatory. Interior much altered but retains staircase with 3 turned balusters per tread of open string and swept wreathed handrails; tall round- arched stair window on landing with white stained glass. Large central 3-centred arched coach doorway in stable block obscured by later Cl9 addition. Home of John Dearman Birchall in C19. Stands in landscaped grounds. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1976; and ed. D. Verey, The Diary of a Victorian Squire (Dearman Birchall), 1983.)

Listing NGR: SO8710415095