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Listed building outline: Ranscombe House Hotel 383718

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Ranscombe House Hotel 383718

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.507228 50.396184,-3.507307 50.396155,-3.507313...
• entry-date: 1975-01-10
• listed-building: 1218353
• name: Ranscombe House Hotel
• notes: Detached house, now hotel. Early/mid C19, with mid C19 additions. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slated roof. Main block of double-depth plan, 2 rooms-wide with passage behind front rooms separating them from service quarters; entrance and stair-hall to rear right. Short one-room wing at each side, probably added later. 2 storeys, the main block set on a high basement; inserted garret. Symmetrical 3-window front with 1-window wings. Ground storey of main block has round-arched, semicircular niche in centre. French windows with transom-lights at either side. Each leaf has 6 long panes with splayed corners; diamond-shaped panes at the intersections. 4-pane transom-lights in same style. Upper-storey windows have matching 2-light wood casements, except that the panes are square with splayed corners. Outer windows have 6 panes per light and 4-paned transom-lights. Central window (possibly altered) has 12-paned French windows. In front of both storeys a mid C19 two-tiered cast-iron balcony with ornate railings and moulded posts having traceried brackets at the top. Raised band between storeys. Deep, flat eaves-cornice, continued round the side and rear walls. 2 flat-topped mid/late C20 dormers. Right wing is single-storeyed with curved parapet sweeping up to the main block. Pointed-arched window with 2-light wood casement having 2 panes per light; intersecting Gothic tracery in the head. Mid C19 entrance on right side with flanking pilasters and moulded cornice on consoles; gable with pierced bargeboards. To right of it a late C20 small-paned wood casement window. Left wing is 2-storeyed with lean-to roof. Pointed-arched windows in each storey with small-paned sash windows; that in ground storey has 3 over 3 panes with intersecting Gothic tracery in the head of the upper sash; that in upper storey has 2 over 2 panes with glazing bars forming 2 pointed arches in the head of the upper sash. INTERIOR: main ground-floor rooms inspected. The 2 front rooms (now combined) have moulded cornices and panelled shutters, the panels carrying a raised moulding. Moulded cornices in rear passage and right-hand wing room, the latter with plainer panelled shutters. Geometric wood stair with narrow well; cut strings, moulded nosings to treads, thin square balusters, handrail voluted at the bottom. Entrance lobby has moulded cornice; half-glazed inner door with coloured leaded glass. Beyond it,a segmental arch on consoles. Listing NGR: SX9296456226
• reference: 383718
• start-date: 1975-01-10