Hatherley Manor Hotel

SO 82 DOWN HATHERLEY DOWN HATHERLEY VILLAGE

6/27 Hatherley Manor Hotel 18.11.83 (Formerly listed as Hatherley Court)

GV II

Former manor house now hotel. C17, C18, C19 and C20. Main body refaced in red brick. C19, ashlar porch, brick outbuildings, slate and red tile roof including some fishscale tiling, brick stacks. Complex plan, projecting stair well at rear of C17 main body. Flat-roofed C20 extensions to rear of main body not of special interest. Seven-bay, 2-storey facade to main body, lit by plate glass sashes with gauged brick heads and limestone keystones. Two-bay principal gable projecting forward towards left, single bay also with gable set back left, projecting 2-storey gabled porch off-centre right with reused 4-light mullioned and transomed window to first floor, scratch sundial with illegible inscription below, foliate scrollwork at sides and bottom of sundial. C20 four-panelled pointed studded door within moulded 'Tudor'-arched surround below stone-mullioned cross windows with ovolo-moulded mullions in side walls of porch. Twin gable-ends of outbuildings far left. Limestone gable-end coping with ball finials to main body. Interior; C17 open well staircase with barely twist balusters, ball finials and pendants, C17 decorative moulded plaster ceilings, comprising central rosette within a geometric outline over each landing. Ground floor; front left-hand room contains Cl7 panelling with strapwork frieze around top and a fine Baroque chimneypiece with moulded pulvinated frieze, scalloped decoration over flanking cartouche with inscrip- tion / RI MUSGROS HUIUS / CAPELLE CONDITOR /, similar fireplace reputed to be in an upstairs bedroom, C17 panelling and Regency fireplace in another upstairs room. (David Verey, The Building of England; Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean, 1980).

Listing NGR: SO8589322725