Description

ST04SW OLD CLEEVE CP
BILBROOK

1/61 The Dragon House Hotel

22.5.69

- II

Farmhouse, now hotel. C17, altered early C18 and C20. Red sandstone random rubble, wooden lintels to openings, slate
roof, coped verges, stone stacks gable ends, rendered right. Plan: 2 cell and cross passage enlarged at rear with wing
forming part of South facing courtyard. 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays; inserted early C20 gabled 2- and 3-light dormers,
others 4-light leaded casements in wooden frames, 2-light above central hipped, slate roofed random rubble porch, reset
doorcase with renewed ribbed plank door with fleur-de-lys hinges, C20 glazed inner door. Plaque above entrance
inscribed R H 1704. South East corner C20 segmental headed carriageway entrance in random rubble wall linking 4 bay
linhay with circular piers, one bay blocked, forming East side of stone flagged courtyard. Wing opposite has two
steeply chamfered 4-light mullioned windows and one ovolo moulded mullion. Interior extensively altered, some surviving
chamfered beans with step and runout stops only. (Photographs in NMR).

Listing NGR: ST0360440972

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26309719

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)