Description

ETTINGTON

SP24NW
1912-1/6/78
05/04/67

SHIPSTON ROAD, Alderminster
(East side (off))
Ettington Park Hotel
(Formerly Listed as:
ETTINGTON
Ettington Park)

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Country house, now hotel. 1858-62 re-modelling of earlier
house, probably mid C17 with mid C18 additions and interior
alterations of 1824; late C20 alterations and additions. By
John Pritchard and JP Seddon, incorporating 1824 work by
Rickman and Hutchinson, for Evelyn Philip Shirley.
MATERIALS: yellow and grey banded limestone ashlar; steeply
pitched stone slate hipped, gabled, conical and pyramidal
roofs with cresting and stone ridge, lateral and internal
stacks (some round).
PLAN: E-plan with rear wing, and service wings to left.
EXTERIOR: east, entrance, facade of 2 storeys plus attic;
3-window main range with flanking wings and re-entrant
turrets; wings joined by 7-bay screen with porte-cochere to
central entrance. Top cornices and coped parapets with blind
quatrefoils. Porte cochere has diagonal buttresses flanking
arch; crenellated parapet. Screen walls have arches with
enriched hoods and 2-light plate tracery with wrought-iron
grilles, cornice with dog-tooth and pierced parapet. 2- and
3-light mullioned windows, those to top floor with
trefoil-headed lights in gabled half-dormers, the central
dormer with relief carving to tympanum. Turret to left has
circular upper half carried on broaches and conical roof.
Square turret to right with 2-light trefoil-headed windows
with plate tracery to upper stage, beneath cornice and pyramid
roof.
Wing to left has hipped roof and 2-storey bow window with 3
trefoil-headed 1st floor windows over relief panels; wing to
right has full-height canted bay window with similar details,
and richly carved cornice to hipped roof, colonnettes to
3-light ground floor window and richly carved deep cornice on
shafts; hipped roof.
To left return a bowed projection with buttress and window to
left; three 2-light gabled dormers, one of which is over
service wing with banding and buttresses; C20 rebuilding
behind facade.
3-window right return has 2-light windows and gabled dormers;
to right end a 3-storey canted bay window with roundels over
cusped lights and statues in niches to cants; pavilion roof.
Rear of wing has pointed window to ground floor with stained
glass, 3 trefoil-headed windows to 1st floor and rose window
under Florentine arch to gable, which has end stack and stack
to projection to right. To right of this is a gabled porch
with cusped arch on columns and 2 pointed lights over, and
projecting wing with left return of 2-window range with gable
over 2-storey canted bay window with hipped stone roof and
projecting gabled bay with 3-light ground floor window with
carved shields over, deep brackets to 1st floor balcony and
2-light window with relief carving to tympanum and 2-light
gable window; end has 2 stacks and chapel with canted end,
steep roof and 2-light windows; frieze with inlaid lettering
and coped parapet. Rest of rear range has sash windows and
attached C20 rear wing.
Service range to right end has pierced parapet and windows
with shouldered lintels over 6-light sashes; large external
stack with offsets; to end a tower with carriage entrance
under 3-centred head and string course raised over inscription
panel, top crenellated parapet; single-storey C20 range to
right. Relief panels over ground floor windows to main facades
by Edward Clarke to designs by HH Armstead, and illustrate the
Shirley family history.
INTERIOR: entrance hall has rich chimneypiece, 1857; arcade to
staircase hall. Dining room has C15 or C16 doorway; C18 inlaid
teak and walnut panelling and late C18 chimneypiece. The
library has 1824 remodelling: ogee-arched and traceried
doorway; chimneypiece incorporating 2-light window copied from
one at Windsor; cornice with Tudor flower and ribbed ceiling
with pendants; traceried bookcases. Drawing room has C19
beamed ceiling and fireplace. Gallery has 1860s bookcases and
stained glass. Room to south has overmantel relief of the
signing of the warrant for the arrest of John Wilkes and
others in 1763. Chapel has some remains of murals, and stained
glass.
The most important and impressive High Victorian house in the
county.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth:
1966-: 289; Shirley EP: Ettington: its Manor House and Church:
London: 1880-; Shell Guides: Hickman D: Warwickshire: London:
1979-: 96-8; Occasional Papers: Tyack G: The Country Houses of
Warwickshire 1800-1939: 1989-: 16, 25, 39-41).

Listing NGR: SP2474247332

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Ettington Park at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15217025

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