Pencerrig Gardens Hotel

Pencerrig Gardens Hotel

A 2½-storey early 19th-century Gothic style country house with pink roughcast walls and a slate roof on deeply projecting eaves. A moulded freestone band runs between the storeys. The service wings have roughcast chimneys, each with two diagonal shafts.

The asymmetrical north front forms the entrance elevation, comprising three bays. An ashlar porch features diagonal buttresses, a Tudor arch with quatrefoils in the spandrels, and steps rising internally to double-half-lit doors under a Tudor head with flanking half-glazed panels and a traceried overlight. To the left of the entrance is a gabled bay containing a two-light window in the upper storey and a single-light attic window. The central bay above the porch holds two single-light windows, while the right-hand bay (formerly beneath a gable with attic windows) has two two-light windows. A lean-to has been added to the right of the porch at the lower storey, and a single-light lower storey window at the right end is now visible only from the service yard, obscured by a late 20th-century extension from this side. Pointed windows are set in the side walls, the right-hand one now enclosed within a later lean-to.

The symmetrical east front is dominated by two slightly advanced gabled bays with a narrow central bay between them. Diagonal freestone buttresses strengthen the composition. The gabled bays contain two-light canted bay windows with transoms and French doors, enriched by thin Gothic clustered shafts. Above these are two-light upper-storey windows and single-light attic windows. The central bay features a Tudor-headed niche and a two-light window above.

The asymmetrical four-bay south garden front includes a gabled bay on the right with a two-storey three-light canted bay window similar to the east front but without a transom in the upper storey. To its left is a two-light canted bay window with a matching two-light upper-storey window (formerly under a gable). Set back further left is a bay with an added hipped single-storey lean-to containing a triple sash window flanked by single sashes, and a three-light window above (also formerly under a gable). Immediately to its left is a two-light lower storey window beneath a V-shaped oriel. Further left is the service wing.

The service wing's four-window south front displays Tudor-headed sashes, twelve-pane in the lower storey and nine-pane under gablets in the upper storey. The basement contains a two-light window at the right end (now enclosed within a greenhouse) and a single casement to its left.

The west side of the main house features a slate-hung gable and a single-storey projection. The south service wing is of painted brick, effectively three storeys towards the service yard due to the lower ground level on this side. It has a central gabled bay with a Tudor-headed nine-pane sash window in the upper storey, an eighteen-pane segmental-headed sash window in the middle storey, and a three-light casement in the lower storey. The lower west service wing, also of painted brick, has Tudor-headed sash windows under gablets in the upper storey and two chimneys rising from the eaves. The lower storey contains two round-headed doorways with recessed doors and a two-light casement window to the right.

A late 20th-century link on the west side of the north front connects to a late 20th-century wing built at the north end of the service block, closing off the service yard on the west side of the house.

The entrance hall is top-lit and contains a quarter-turn stair with cusped-arch balusters and moulded tread ends, reached through a small lobby and carried across the entrance hall through a Tudor arch. A fireplace with a stone surround decorated in high relief with oak leaves and grapes occupies one wall. The most richly decorated room faces south, immediately opposite the north entrance. It features a plaster rib vault on the head with foliage corbels and foliage bosses. In this room and throughout the building, doorways and window surrounds are enriched with thin shafts. Gothic panelled shutters and doorways with Gothic panelled reveals and doors are retained in this and other rooms.