Description

DONINGTON HIGH STREET
TF 23 NW
(north side)
2/18 Red Cow Hotel
G.V. II
Hotel and Assembly Room. C17, refronted and raised c.1800,
altered late C19 and C20. Colourwashed and rendered brick,
stucco dressings, slate roof, 2 gable and single ridge stacks. 3
storey, 7 bay front with first and second floor stucco bands.
Overhanging eaves. Off-centre double panelled doors with leaded
fanlight in a plain stucco pilastered surround and C20 projecting
glazed hood, flanked by pairs of C20 windows. To right an open
segmental carriage arch, with plain imposts and key block, beyond
again a further C20 window. To first floor are 6 glazing bar
sashes with to left a C19 rectangular oriel window on scrolled
wrought iron brackets and hipped lead roofs. To second floor are
7 further sashes. All windows have cambered heads. To right an
added tall single storey plus cellar 3 bay Assembly Room with
concrete tiled roof. 3 grilled lights to cellar. Above are 3
tall glazing bar sashes with cill band, splayed brick arched
heads and key blocks. In the right hand side of the carriageway
is a 6 panel door leading to the Assembly Room with radiating
fanlight, wood panelled reveals, fluted wooden pilasters with
paterae, semi-circular head with keystone. Interior of the hotel
has semi-circular niches with fluted pilasters flanking the
fireplaces in both front rooms. Beam with run out stops. The
Assembly Room is reached up a staircase with mahogany handrail.
It has a flat segmental blank arch with fluted pilasters and
roundels with matching architraves to windows and doors. Plaster
cornice above suspended ceiling.

Listing NGR: TF2091035710

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26317649

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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