BISHOPSTROW HOUSE HOTEL

BISHOPSTROW HOUSE HOTEL, WARMINSTER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1364375
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1968
List Entry Name:: BISHOPSTROW HOUSE HOTEL
Statutory Address:: BISHOPSTROW HOUSE HOTEL, WARMINSTER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1364375
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1968
List Entry Name:: BISHOPSTROW HOUSE HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: BISHOPSTROW HOUSE HOTEL, WARMINSTER 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:: BISHOPSTROW HOUSE HOTEL, WARMINSTER ROAD

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bishopstrow
National Grid Reference:: ST 89738 44306

Details

BISHOPSTROW WARMINSTER ROAD ST 84 SE (north side) 3/12 Bishopstrow House Hotel, (formerly listed as Bishopstrow House) 11.9.68

GV II

Detached house, now hotel. 1817, by John Pinch the Elder of Bath for William Temple. Limestone ashlar, Welsh slate mansard roof, ashlar stacks with moulded cappings. Regency. Two-storey, 5- windowed symmetrical front: 12-pane sashes. Central porch with 2 fluted Ionic columns and pilasters in antis, double doors with 6 fielded panels, centre bay projects slightly, either side are two sashes. First floor has 5 sashes, moulded stone cornice to blocking course. Four dormers to roof with casements. Left return is garden front with central 3-sash 2-storey bow and one sash either side, cornice and blocking course. Right return is English garden wall bond brick with sashes and casements, attached to right is single-bay late C19 addition, stucco with sashes on three floors. Rear has round-arched stair window to left, sashes and attached C20 conservatory, range to left is brick with segmental- headed 16-pane sashes. Interior: entrance hall has elliptical-arched openings, good fluted door and window architraves with panelled reveals and paterae or rosettes, mahogany doors with 6 fielded panels. Open- well stairs with wrought iron balustrade and ramped mahogany handrail, wreathed at bottom, guilloche frieze to stair ceiling with central rosette. Drawing room has marble fireplace surround with Ionic columns, anthemion ceiling frieze with rosette. Attached to right is early C19 L-plan 2-storey stable block in English garden wall bond brick with slate roof. Currently undergoing extensive renovation and conversion to hotel accommodation (April 1985). House built to replace C17 Bishopstrow House to south of road, near The Coach House (q.v.), which was partly destroyed by fire c.1800. The main gardens are still to south of road and connected by the Tunnel (q.v.) under the A36. (VCH. Wiltshire, 1965, p.6).

Listing NGR: ST8973844306

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Legacy System number:: 313229
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pugh, RB, Crittall, E, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1965), 6

Legal

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