New House Hotel

This is a medium-sized country house, built in the Classical style and later converted into a hotel. The house is two storeys high and has a scored, stone-coloured render with painted stone dressings and a stone plinth. It has Welsh slate roofs of a shallow pitch and narrow, rendered stacks. The design is symmetrical, featuring a central unit with two two-storey canted bays on either side of a narrow entrance bay, and two set-back side wings, each with a two-window range. A further set-back wing is located to the right.

Most windows are large 12-pane sashes with moulded architraves. The central wing, of three bays, has a separate, shallow Mansard roof, a deep cornice with a parapet, and first-floor windows surmounted by separate panels – rectangular on the side walls and pediments to the front. Balustraded or rectangular panels separate the storeys. A flight of nosed steps leads to the doorway, which features stuccoed Ionic pilasters and an entablature, a six-panelled wooden door and a rectangular overlight with rectangular tracery. A narrow sash window sits above the door, with a separate pediment.

The side wings have a wooden modillion cornice. The first floor has two sashes with architraves and heads at cornice level. Larger ground floor sashes each have an individual cornice on a console above. The set-back wing to the right, now fronted by a glazed conservatory, has a three-window range of sashes with architraves, one round arched, and an end bay projecting to the frontage line, featuring a long staircase window with a separate pediment.

A small central hallway has been formed by subdividing the original large hall which retains a ‘black and white’ polished stone floor. Many rooms retain original features including panelled shutters and reveals, fluted architraves, moulded cornices, ceiling roses and six-panelled doors. A room on the right has a bolection moulded, marbled surround to a brass and iron fireplace with an arched recess to the side. A panelled arch leads to the rear staircase which has an open string, moulded treads and stick balusters. The rear staircase window has intersecting tracery, patterned leading and a moulded surround with angle blocks incorporating a flower motif, plus folding shutters. A drawing room, now a dining room, on the right has a white marble fireplace and a billet cornice.