THE GRIFF HOUSE HOTEL

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
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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 308590
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Dodds, D, Adams, K, The George Eliot Country7-8
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.