Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 March 2024 to remove superfluous source details from text and reformat the text to current standards
ST 77 SW
8/88
DOYNTON C.P.
BATH ROAD (east side)
Tracy Park
22.1.74
GV.
II
House, now hotel. C17 nucleus, early C19 front, additions and alterations, including tower made in late C19, dated 1859 and 1863 on rear, and 1871 in front right room, by Charles Rex Davy, then owner, further additions and alterations c.1920 and later. Limestone ashlar front and sides, rubble to rear, slate roofs. Irregular plan, classical style front, Tudor Gothic to rear and possibly part of original C17 work in rear wall, largely rebuilt.
South front of two storeys and seven windows, all plate glass sashes in plain reveals, centre three bays broken forward, central tetrastyle Doric portico set on plinth with steps, entablature and pediment with lamb and flag in tympanum and inscription "in hoc signo vinces", balustrade above, four engaged columns to rear of portico, C20 door with fanlight and multi-pane sidelights; large buttresses surmounted by crosses rise between the outer pair of windows to each side, recessed panel between ground and first floor windows, cill band at first floor, cornice, parapet and balustrade divided by dies with wreaths and swags.
To left a single storey C19 addition with central glazed door, triple key stone and pediment, multi-pane cross window to each side, cornice, high parapet and upper cornice; attached to left a lower single storey block, c.1920 with arcade of eight Doric columns on high plinth, divided by eight-pane lights, cornice and high parapet; two storey addition set back to right, dated 1871 internally. Left return has moulded doorway with C20 French window, two Doric columns to porch, entablature, pediment, balcony and balustrade, triple window at first floor, cornice and parapet; to right, first floor triple window has apron with carved leaves dated 1864, triple window at ground floor with central round-headed light, modillion cornice. To right, extremely elaborate tower, parapet wall of carved twined rope, carved corner dies, central top room with Ionic pilasters at corners, enriched pulvinated frieze, modillion cornice and large finial. Two storey block to right in Tudor Gothic style, in rubble with stone quoins, varied windows including canted bay through two storeys with three three-light windows at first floor with trefoil heads.
Left return of three storeys, three windows to left and canted bay through two storeys with C19 ovolo mullion and transom windows, all others sashes except ground floor right of C20, first floor windows with architrave and entablature, central six-panelled door with overlight, flanking pilasters and entablature. Rear of three storeys and five windows, three bays to right have three small gables with ball finials, oval bull's eye with hood mould in each gable; varied windows including two canted bays through two storeys and attached projecting bay with fifteen-light mullion and transom window, all with leaded lights, ground and first floor right have six-light ovolo mullion and transom windows with relieving arches, others similar three-light casements. String courses, two datestones with Davy coats of arms, to left 1863 with inscription "spes mea Christus erit", to right "1859 auspice Christo" (as at Toghill House Farmhouse (q.v.)).
Interior: entrance hall has panelled ceiling, cornice, Doric columns on plinths, arch with reeded soffit leading to open-well stair with shaped string and wreathed handrail, oval lantern above stairwell, six-panelled doors at landing level. Front right room has elaborate cornice with Vitruvian scroll, wooden fireplace with fluted angled pilasters, alcove addition dated 1871 in Lombard frieze; front right room has elaborate cornice, egg and dart with rosettes. Kitchen to rear has large stone fireplace and overmantel with masonic emblems.
Listing NGR: ST7134371870
