Listed Building: ANTELOPE HOTEL (104244)

CORNHILL 1. 5191 (West Side) Antelope Hotel SY 6990 7/15 8.5.50 II* 2. Yellow brick. 3 storeys. Stone-plinth. Facade divided into 3 bays by stone pilasters. These are rusticated on ground floor and have sunk panel treatment above. Deep flat moulded caps at top, the moulding being returned and carried across front as cornice. Flat stone string returned round pilasters. The 2 lower storeys of the 2 outer bays consist of segmental brick bows. On 1st floor the windows have bowed balconies on brackets with iron balustrades. Above each bow is a semi-circular window with 4-light casement. Central bay has opening giving access to yard. This has a pair of high wood grille doors. Above opening is french window with iron balcony. 2nd floor has 2-light casement. The front is of early C19 date, but the structure incorporates an earlier building and contains a late C16 fireplace. The courtyard has been roofed in, but there is still a right-of- way through it. 2 early C19 doorways with good elliptical fanlights open into the courtyard from the hotel. Interior contains the Oak Room with reset panelling of later C16. Moulding on muntins and lower side of rails only (though in north east corner rails are moulded on upper side only, suggesting panels have been reset upside down). Uppermost rail has double notches (possibly a primitive rendering of triglyphs) and crescent motifs. Frieze above this (itself panelled) with a form of strapwork in shallow relief. 1 pilaster (also with this strapwork) on high base, with egg and dart capital, and taking scrolled console. Moulded cornice to ceiling. Cupboard door with contemporary hinges. 2 chimneypieces, both with 4-centred stone arches (1 concave and 1 convex chamfer each) to fireplaces. Mantel shelf taken on paired (north end) or single (south end) Tuscan columns with high bases, that at south end with the "triglyph" motif. Overmantel has 6 paired ringed Tuscan columns with egg-and-dart abaci, taking patterned architrave (with modillions at south end), frieze with the same strapwork divided by paired scrolled brackets, and modillions to ceiling cornice. Between the columns are 2 arches on diminutive colonnettes with egg-and-dart extrados at south end, hollow chamfer at north end, semi-cirmilar bosses in spandrel and pendant finials at north end. Listing NGR: SY6924090682

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Apr 15 2019 10:50AM