Iconic Grade 1 Listed 20-Key Ston Easton Hotel, South West of Bath For Sale
Location: Ston Easton Park, 12 miles south-west of Bath, Somerset, England, UK
Name: Ston Easton Hotel
Guide Price: Around £6m
Guide Price per Key: £300k
No. of Keys: 20…and 7 reception rooms
The Opportunity:
Described by Pevsner as “exceptionally sumptuous” in the style of William Kent and listed Grade I, Ston Easton Park is a wonderful Georgian country house with delightful Grade II listed Repton gardens and views across the neighbouring parkland. Ideally located within the popular county of Somerset and affording good access to the neighbouring cities of Bath, Bristol and Wells. Ston Easton Park an appealing prospect for buyers seeking a superb country home or a landmark building from which to run a commercial venture.
Once owned by the ill-fated Von Essen Hotels, who went bust…the hotel was acquired by James Caan, under his Hamilton Bradshaw banner for £3m in 2012, then acquired back by Andrew Davies, non other than the ex-chairman of Von Essen….. who ran it more as a private residence, and now back in the hands of the receiver once again!
Tall stone pillars with ornate pedimented iron gates open onto the long tree lined drive which leads through landscape gardens to the appealing Georgian Mansion House dating from 1769. The west wing contains the earliest part of the house and the delightful symmetry of the façade displays three storeys and incorporates pavilions to left and right with low pitched pyramid roofs. Centrally the fine entrance has Tuscan columns supporting metope-frieze and the garlanded Hippisley-Coxe coat of arms in relief above. The rear (southern) garden elevation, also symmetrical but simpler in design has a wide terrace running the width of the house and overlooking the gardens.
The first and second floors provide 19 well appointed and individually designed luxury bedroom suites including one with its own roof terrace. The lower ground floor has a central hall with access to the gardens and grounds to both east and west and provides valuable space with games room, garden room, billiard room, studies, stores and the original kitchen which is engagingly Edwardian in arrangement. There is scope to create additional accommodation from these rooms.
The property has 28.4 acres of land.
The Gardeners Cottage – A pretty detached house with stepped gables and river frontage situated between the house and the walled garden. Listed Grade II and arranged as 3 bedroom suites or for use as a single property.
Lodge Cottage: Formerly the entrance lodge. A detached single storey one-bedroom cottage situated on the western edge of the property….separately owned and due to go to auction in mid-December 2021
Coach House: A fine symmetrical single storey coach house and stables. Contemporary to the mansion house and listed Grade II*. Requiring renovation and with planning consent for conversion into a hotel function suite granted in 2017.
Garage and stores: There are two detached period buildings to the west of the house and both accessed from the secondary drive. Presently arranged as garaging and storage space.
Flag & Management: Free to new owner
Current Owner: Receivers
Main Photo: The fab looking Grade 1 Georgian House
Tenure: Freehold
Agent: Strutt & Parker as joint agents. THPT would need to be retained by the buyer…for which we can add good value
Date Posted: December 2021
THPT Comment: This epitome of a “country-house hotel” once had a fab reputation and could be put back into the realm of a Top 20 UK CH hotel…especially if the new owner invested in putting in a spa and created a wedding venue, for which there is space and almost certainly consent from the planning authorities
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