Mentone Hotel And Attached Walls And Gatepiers

The Mentone Hotel, originally a house dating from around 1870, is now a hotel located in Minehead. It is constructed of snecked red sandstone with painted freestone dressings and features irregular rusticated quoins. The building has a crested slate roof with three machine-brick stacks positioned at the angles, rear, and left slope.

The hotel has an irregular L-plan layout, with a wing on the left that has a lower, projecting forward-facing gable. Designed in the Gothic Revival style, it stands two storeys tall and has a three-window range, with a projecting gabled front on the left-hand wing adjacent to the central entrance. The windows are characterized by pointed arches, with hood-moulds above the first-floor window of the left forward-facing gable and over a three-light casement window under a pointed arch on the ground floor of the left return.

To the right, there are two- and three-light mullioned sash windows in half-dormers, while the left gable end features a three-light window. The entrance consists of a set-back studded and panelled door located in the angle beneath a slate lean-to porch, flanked by painted ashlar canted bays. The left bay has a two-light sash window with a hipped slate roof, and the right bay has a three-light window beneath a castellated parapet.

On the left return facing Western Lane, there are two gabled half-dormers above two-light sash windows, which flank two small two-light casement windows at eaves level. The ground floor includes two- and three-light sash and casement windows. The interior has not been inspected.

In front of the hotel and to the left return, there is a garden featuring a low rubblestone wall with painted freestone capping, along with matching painted gabled gatepiers to the right.