Cleeveway Hotel

SP 9527 16/24

BISHOP'S CLEEVE A435 (east side) Cleeveway Hotel

II

Former house now hotel. Possibly late C18 extended and altered mid-late C19. Coursed squared and dressed limestone with dressed stone quoins and ashlar dressings; stone slate roof with rendered and ashlar stacks. Basically square plan possibly incorporating a C18 building between two east-west cross wings, further C18 range at the north-east corner. Twin-gabled entrance front with 2-storey canted bay to the left with sashes with horns and horizontal glazing bars to the ground floor; 8-pane sashes to the upper floor; embattlemented parapet; small 2-light window above. Central C19 projecting open-sided porch with fluted columns and round-headed arches with keystones on three sides; pierced parapet C20 part-glazed door with leaded panes within the porch; 2 sash windows with horizontal glazing bars to the right. Four 12-pane sashes to the first foor; small 4-pane window to gable upper right. Dressed stone surrounds with keystones to all windows. The area between the 2 gables is recessed slightly at first floor level and has a deep moulded cornice. Almost symmetrical twin-gabled 2:2:2-windowed west front lit by sash windows with plain dressed stone architraves with keystones and glazing bars, some only horizontal. Two 2-storey canted bays with battlemented parapets to the east front. Large circular fluted pedestals with finials formerly at the apex and eaves of each gable, some now badly eroded or lost. Interior: cornice with anthemion decoration and Corinthian modillions with floral bosses. Mid-late C19 open-well staircase with wreathed handrail and foliate cast iron balustrade. Incomplete interior inspection which appears to retain many period features.

Listing NGR: SO9571627948