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Listed building outline: Bishop'S Court Hotel 390665

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Bishop'S Court Hotel 390665

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.517908 50.466046,-3.517966 50.466041,-3.517964...
• entry-date: 1973-12-07
• listed-building: 1209895
• name: Bishop'S Court Hotel
• notes: Shown as Normount on OS map. Large detached villa, in use as hotel. 1844. Plastered; slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts with projecting moulded cornices. Neo-classical style. PLAN: Main block rectangular. Entrance on west side into corridor from which stair rises to north; north-east service wing. Extensive additions, mostly detached, associated with hotel use. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 1:3-bay west front, the 3 bays symmetrical, the left-hand bay probably an addition. Rusticated quoins; moulded cornice below blocking course; moulded string at first floor level. Centre bay of the 3 broken forward under a parapet with rusticated quoins. Good, large Doric porch with a distyle columns in antis, triglyphs and guttae. 2-leaf panelled door below segmental-headed fanlight with spider's web glazing bars. 3 first-floor windows with moulded architraves, glazed with secondary 2-pane sashes except the right-hand window, which is blind with Venetian shutters. Ground-floor windows with moulded architraves, pediments on consoles and sill blocks, glazed with secondary 2-pane sashes; right-hand window blind. The left-hand bay of the front projects and has windows to match. The right return (garden elevation) is 5 bays, the centre 3 under a pediment, with the ground floor projecting, with a balustraded parapet and 3 high-transomed French windows divided by Ionic pilasters with paired pilasters to left and right. First-floor centre French windows onto balcony. Outer bays have windows to match west front. East front has pediment over centre of 3 bays with ground floor built out as loggia, now glazed in, with balustraded parapet. INTERIOR: Retains plaster cornices; chimneypieces including classical white marble with coloured marble panels; stair with turned balusters and ramped mahogany handrail and 2-panel mahogany doors. The large terraced garden has been altered for hotel use. Listing NGR: SX9235264008
• reference: 390665
• start-date: 1973-12-07