Quantock Gateway Hotel

The Quantock Gateway Hotel is a mid-19th century villa, now a hotel. It is built of red Wembdon rubble stone with stone dressings, has a shallow-pitched slate roof with projecting eaves, and a central brick ridge stack. The building has a double-depth plan with a lower wing extending to the left, and later extensions to the rear. The design is Italianate in style, with two storeys and an attic. The front elevation originally had a single window. A central belvedere tower rises above the roofline, featuring a hipped roof and a weather vane; the second floor of the tower has three open arches with a bracketed cill band. A semicircular arch frames the stair window to the first floor, which has a 6/6-pane sash window. A 20th-century entrance porch sits below. An ashlar, single-storey gabled block is located to the right, featuring a gauged stone arch to a blind Venetian arch, possibly a former entrance. The right return of this block has a similar arch. The right return facing the courtyard of the forward wing has a segmental arch framing a 2-light casement window on the first floor, with a 3-light canted bay below. The right return of the main block is gabled, with a semicircular arch framing a 3/3-pane sash window to the attic, a gauged flat arch to an 8/8-pane sash on the first floor, and a large rectangular bay with 20th-century windows below. The rear elevation is of 20th-century construction.

Inside, an open-well staircase features chamfered stick balusters and a swept, moulded handrail. A room behind the hall retains its cornice, and two rooms above have moulded cornices, skirting boards and 4-panel doors. Attic rooms contain panelled doors concealing beds in the eaves, and some exposed roof trusses. The forward wing has semi-elliptical arches and moulded glazing bars on its casement windows. The building has group value.