QUANTOCK GATEWAY HOTEL

QUANTOCK GATEWAY HOTEL, WEMBDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187376
Date first listed:: 16-Dec-1974
List Entry Name:: QUANTOCK GATEWAY HOTEL
Statutory Address:: QUANTOCK GATEWAY HOTEL, WEMBDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187376
Date first listed:: 16-Dec-1974
List Entry Name:: QUANTOCK GATEWAY HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: QUANTOCK GATEWAY HOTEL, WEMBDON 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:: QUANTOCK GATEWAY HOTEL, WEMBDON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bridgwater
National Grid Reference:: ST 28806 36984

Details

BRIDGWATER

ST2836 WEMBDON ROAD 736-1/8/197 (South West side) 16/12/74 Quantock Gateway Hotel

II

Villa, now a hotel. Mid C19. Red Wembdon rubblestone with stone dressings, shallow-pitched slate roof with projecting eaves and central brick ridge stack. Double-depth plan with a lower forward wing to the left and later extensions. Italianate style. 2 storeys with attic; one-window range to the front. A central belvedere tower has a hipped roof with weather vane over an arcaded second floor. 3 open arches to each side have bracketed cill band, stair window to first floor has a semicircular arch to 6/6-pane sash, C20 entrance porch below. An ashlar single-storey gabled block to the right has gauged stone arch to a blind Venetian arch, possibly a former entrance; right return of this has a similar arch. The right return of forward left wing, facing the courtyard, has a segmental arch to 2-light casement window to first floor and a 3-light canted bay below. The right return of the main block is gabled with a semicircular arch to a 3/3-pane sash window to the attic, a gauged flat arch to an 8/8-pane sash to first floor and a large rectangular bay with C20 windows below. The rear is C20. INTERIOR: The open-well, open-string staircase has chamfered stick balusters and swept and moulded handrail. Room to rear of hall retains cornice, 2 rooms above have moulded cornices, skirting boards and 4-panel doors. Attic rooms have panelled doors concealing beds in the eaves and some exposed roof trusses. The forward wing to left has semi-elliptical arches and moulded glazing bars to frames to casement windows of bay.

Listing NGR: ST2880636984

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Legacy System number:: 374014
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.