Tewkesbury Park Hotel

TEWKESBURY

SO83SE LINCOLN GREEN LANE 859-1/2/282 Tewkesbury Park Hotel 27/07/73 (Formerly Listed as: GLOUCESTER ROAD Tewkesbury Park)

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Large country house, now hotel. Late C18. Rendered, slate roof, brick stacks. PLAN: a long thin block with 2 full-height round bays on the garden side, with slightly set-back wing to the E, and two deep wings to the N (entrance side), one of these original, enclosing courtyard. The courtyard now filled by late C20 hotel extensions, and considerable extensions to the west. EXTERIOR: S front is 3 storeys and part basement, 1:3:1:3:1:2-windowed, all 12-pane sashes with face boxes and stone cills; windows at first floor larger than at second floor. The 3-window bows are to hipped roofs with weather-vane finials. At ground floor is a pair of C20 French doors, left, and to centre a pair of 2-panel part-glazed doors in C19 surround with a cornice on scroll supporters, on a flight of 9+4 sandstone steps to nosings. Large rendered stack at right end. To right the lower set-back wing has 2 wide-spaced 12-pane sashes flanking a slightly projecting and cropped eaves stack; at ground floor a C19 lean-to glazed conservatory in poor condition at time of survey. Main block has slight flat pilaster ends and cap mould continued under eaves. Left return is painted brickwork, with 12-pane sashes centrally, but concealed at ground floor by new additions. Back, now entrance front, has 3 wide-spaced 12-pane sashes at first and second floors, and a central projecting porch, now absorbed into the extension between the long gabled wings; that to the left (E) side seems to be contemporary with the house, in painted brickwork to slated hipped roof, with display window under hip. The corresponding wing to the right of the entrance is new or rebuilt. INTERIOR has main stair in an open well to swept bottom flight, square balusters, moulded swept handrail, open string and scrolled ends. Several rooms and corridors have fielded panelling and fielded panelled doors, including the boardroom in the first floor of one of the bays, panelled throughout. At base of stairs a screen of 2 stone Doric columns carrying triglyph frieze. The building is somewhat overwhelmed by C20 extension on the approach side, but the main block masters the landscape on the S side. The house is on the site of the C14 house of the Despencers, and near the site of the Battle of Tewkesbury.

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