Description

OLD STRATFORD AND DRAYTON

SP15NE BISHOPTON LANE, Bishopton
1931-1/2/74 (North side)
18/11/93 Victoria Spa Lodge and Bruce Lodge

GV II

Spa hotel, now house. 1837. Brick with ashlar dressings; tile
roof and brick cross-axial stacks and end stacks with fluted
shafts.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 4-bay range; bays articulated
by chamfered pilaster strips, and Tudor arches to gables to
first, third and fourth bays; fourth bay probably later.
First-floor sill course; wide verges and moulded bargeboards.
Entrances to second bay have overlights, side lights and
half-glazed doors with decorative glazing. Windows have
hollow-chamfered reveals and label moulds: ground floor has
end bay windows with hipped roofs over 4-light transomed
casements and side lights; 4-light transomed window to third
bay; first floor has 3-light casements, that to fourth bay
with elliptical head, second bay has 3 single lights and
gabled dormer above; gables have elliptical-headed windows
with 2-light casements; all windows have decorative glazing.
Left return has 2-gabled bay breaking forward to left of bay
with gablet to stack; first bay later, with elliptical-headed
windows with 3-light casements and fielded panel with Royal
Arms to gable; second bay has 4-light transomed casement to
ground floor window; first-floor 3-light casement and
elliptical-headed window to attic; fielded panel with Royal
Arms to end gablet.
Rear has gabled bay with 3 stepped lights and flanking
parallel ranges; end gabled wing; simpler details, including
some casements with margin lights to left end; various stacks
with fluted shafts. Decorative features similar to those on
houses in Warwick Road and Old Town (qv).
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: built for the abortive Royal Victorian Spa, believed
to be the first building named after Queen Victoria.
(Fogg N: Stratford-upon-Avon: Portrait of a Town: 1986-: 138;
Warwickshire History: Bearman R: Bishopton Spa: 1969-1975:
20-34).

Listing NGR: SP1842056365

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662785

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