Delaney's Hotel and Restaurant, Middle Court and West Wing, Stardens

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SO 7226-7326 NEWENT TEWKESBURY ROAD (north side)

12/177 Delaney's Hotel and Restaurant, Middle Court and West Wing, Stardens

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Former country house, now hotel and 2 houses. Late C18, altered and greatly enlarged 1872-73 by R.F. Onslow. C18 Flemish-bond brickwork, ashlar dressings added: 1872 squared, snecked stone, ashlar dressings, slate roof. Large, irregular H-plan, 4-window entrance front, 8 left return, 2 rooms deep in centre, 2½ and 3 storeys high. Plain plinth to 1872 work; alternate red and white voussoirs to all openings. Entrance front: gable, tower, 2-bay set back. On left buttress, 3-light mullion and transom window, reticulated tracery; boarded door with elaborate hinges up 3 stone steps: leaf stops tohoodmould. Above 2 small arched openings either side of a coat of arms. Buttress to right, set back, two 3-light mullion and transom windows, trefoil heads to lights, ashlar to arch: buttress at gable. First floor moulded string to gable and tower: 3-light mullion and transom, trefoil heads to lights, ashlar to arch. Two-light similar to right. Set-back, 2-light and 3-light similar, under gabled dormers, trefoil ventilator in centre, moulded stone kneelers and fleur-de-lys apex to stone copings: similar gable right return. Above cinquefoiled circular window in gable left, otherwise as dormers: paired transomed lancets, ashlar to single relieving arch in tower, moulded string with heraldic animals at corners below crenellated ashlar parapet. Left return: 2-window, gable, 4-window recess, gable. On right late C20 flush door up 3 steps: square single- storey bay, 5-light mullion and transom window, reticulated tracery to flat head, moulded string, heraldic animals at corners, parapet with minute crenellations. Sets forward for gable: central buttress to carry oriel over: 2-light windows as front-left either side. Set back, single lancet, then change to brick. Central boarded door, decorative hinges, 3-section fanlight, under pointed arch: either side a 3-light mullion and transom window, square head, ashlar to relieving arch. Left gable plain, buttress on right. First floor moulded string to right stone section only: two 2-light windows as entrance front; canted oriel on gable, moulded stone corbel and roof, crenellations to eaves: transom and reticulated tracery to single lights. Left set back single lancet. In brick section three 3-light mullion and transom windows, trefoil heads, ashlar to relieving arch: above, below eaves at same level as front, three 3-light mullion under low arch. Triangular oriel in left gable, otherwise as canted oriel in right. Roof: parapet gable right, 2 gabled dormers, 2-light casements, decorative bargeboards with timber finials. Small circular window with quatrefoil each side in gable, larger with 3 spherical triangles in centre: parapet. Stone base to chimney on ridge to left, triangular dormer and stone parapet gable. M-roof to brick section, 3 triangular dormers, further chimney base on ridge to left. Parapet gable over oriel, 6-foiled circular window, fleur- de-lys to apex, decorative stone chimney left return. Interior, stone fireplace with hipped top and foliate capitals entrance hall; in room on right with timber arch, marble columns and crenellated top; boarded panelled ceiling and panelled door to room on right, sliding panelled division between rooms on left. Decorative stone fireplace in room over entrance hall. Built as country house, retaining fabric of earlier farmhouse. Subdivided mid C20: hotel some internal alterations following fire in early 1980's. Single-storey wings on right of entrance and at left end of main garden front not of special interest. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire, The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970; Kelly's Gloucestershire Directory, 1879; photograph of painting of original farmhouse in Newent Market House.)

Listing NGR: SO7252826617

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Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
Kellys Directory in Gloucestershire, (1879)

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