Tewkesbury Park Hotel

The Tewkesbury Park Hotel is a large country house, dating from the late 18th century. It occupies the site of a 14th-century house previously belonging to the Despencer family, and is near the location of the Battle of Tewkesbury.

The main house is a long, thin block with two full-height rounded bays on its garden side. To the east is a slightly set-back wing, and two deep wings project to the north (the entrance side), one of which is original and originally enclosed a courtyard. This courtyard has been filled in with late 20th-century hotel extensions, along with significant extensions to the west. The south front is three storeys high, with a basement, and features a 1:3:1:3:1:2-window arrangement of 12-pane sash windows, fitted with face boxes and stone sills. The windows on the first floor are larger than those above. The two rounded bays have hipped roofs topped with weather vane finials. At ground floor level, there's a pair of 20th-century French doors on the left, and a pair of 19th-century part-glazed double doors, within a surround with a cornice supported by scroll brackets, leading to a flight of nine plus four sandstone steps. A large rendered stack stands at the right end of the building. The lower, set-back wing to the right has two widely spaced 12-pane windows, accompanied by a slightly projecting eaves stack. A dilapidated 19th-century lean-to glazed conservatory is found at ground floor level. The main block has flat pilaster ends and a cap moulding continued under the eaves. The left return side reveals painted brickwork with 12-pane sashes, though these are concealed at ground floor by recent additions. The back of the house, which now serves as the entrance front, has three widely spaced 12-pane sashes at first and second floors, and a central projecting porch that has been incorporated into an extension between the long gabled wings. The wing to the left (east) appears to be contemporary with the main house, constructed of painted brickwork with a slated hipped roof, and featuring a display window under the hip. The corresponding wing to the right of the entrance is either new or rebuilt.

Inside, a main staircase rises in an open well, with a swept bottom flight, square balusters, a moulded swept handrail, an open string, and scrolled ends. Several rooms and corridors have fielded panelling and fielded panelled doors, including the boardroom on the first floor of one of the bays, which is panelled throughout. At the base of the stairs, a screen of two stone Doric columns supports a triglyph frieze. While the building is somewhat overshadowed by 20th-century extensions on the approach side, the main block maintains a commanding presence over the landscape on the south side.