Hope End Hotel
HOPE END HOTEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082142
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Hope End Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- HOPE END HOTEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082142
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Hope End Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOPE END HOTEL
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:
- HOPE END HOTEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Colwall
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 72279 41197
Details
SO 74 SW COLWALL CP -
3/29 Hope End Hotel
15.5.75
GV II
Stable-block, now hotel. Mid C18, altered 1810 - c1820, mid C19 and mid C20. Brick, hipped slate roof behind parapet, rendered turrets at each corner, brick end stack to left and another stack roughly over centre. Former main division of plan into 3 parts for stabling, grooms' room and carriage-house is still evident. 2 storeys, 7 + 1 windows, to south front: 12 pane glazing bar sashes to ground and 6 pane to upper floor; stone round-arched mid C18 entrance under fourth window from left, second entrance under right hand window, both through C20 doors; east front: rendered, 6 windows with mid C19 cross-sashes. Interior: austere cantilevered dog-leg stone staircase with stick balusters to centre part; former carriage-house has hand-cut re-used (?) tie-beam supporting king-post. The south front has been given a C18 appearance this century. Only the turrets which formerly supported narrower drums and ball-finials and were then worthy of the term minarets, can be attributed to London. Group value with stableyard gateway, minaret and boundary wall (qv). Elizabeth Barrett-Browning lived here from 1809-10 when she was 3 until her father E Moulton-Barret sold Hope End in 1832. He had made a fortune from his plantations in Jamaica yet was forced to sell Hope End but not before its eccentric Moorish atmosphere influenced his daughter in, eg, The Lost Bower. The house lay immediately south east and was demolished in the 1870s. Its landscape setting more certainly London's than the house itself was probably influenced by Moulton-Barrett's intimacy with Uvedale Price at nearby Foxley and hence with the Picturesque. (CL, 19 September 1968).
Listing NGR: SO7227941197
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 151429
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in September, (1968)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 20 Hereford and Worcester,
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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