The Griff House Hotel
THE GRIFF HOUSE HOTEL, COVENTRY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1034983
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1947
- List Entry Name:
- The Griff House Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE GRIFF HOUSE HOTEL, COVENTRY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1034983
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1947
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Griff House Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GRIFF HOUSE HOTEL, COVENTRY ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE GRIFF HOUSE HOTEL, COVENTRY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Nuneaton and Bedworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3582888852
Details
NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH
SP38NE 5/51
Griff
COVENTRY ROAD (West side)
The Griff House Hotel
(Formerly listed as Griff House)
06/12/47
II
Farmhouse, now hotel. C17 origins, with small wing to rear; late C18/early C19 front range; mid/late C19 additions. C17 wing is timber-framed with rendered infill and sandstone rubble plinth to sill height. Front range and additions of Flemish bond brick with brick dentil cornice. Old plain-tile roofs; brick ridge stacks. L-plan extended to U-plan, with wings to rear. Two storeys and attic; five-window range.
Front is very largely symmetrical. Flush six-panelled double-leaf door and overlight with glazing bars recessed within moulded wood architrave and doorcase of fluted pilaster strips, large shaped brackets and pitched hood. Painted stone panel above has inscription: 'George Eliot lived here 1820-1841'. Central three bays are closely-spaced. Wood cross windows with many glazing bars have brick cambered arches, on ground floor first bay on left and small C19 single-storey addition to left have C19 cross windows with horizontal glazing bar. Small lower two-storey mid C19 addition to right. Left return side has C17 wing. Two storeys; two-window range. Framing of right half is much renewed. C20 open-fronted porch of stone and sham framing. C19 ribbed door inside. C19 and C20 casements. Right return side has string course and brick corbelling to gable, and two-light attic casement. Large C19 canted bay on left has French window with overlight and moulded wood architrave. Sashes to canted sides and four-pane sash above. C19 two-window range beyond has late C20 addition across ground floor. 16-pane sashes above. Painted rendered lintels throughout.
Interior altered. Extensive later C20 additions to rear are not of special architectural interest.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 June 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 308590
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dodds, D, Adams, K, The George Eliot Country, (), 7-8
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1947), 175
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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