Building record 1452600000 - Ethorpe Hotel - Packhorse Road

Cottage. Built early C19 - shown on 1840 Tithe Map. The name was changed to Ethorpe in the late 1800s. The grounds and meadow land extended to 7 acres. When the estate was sold in 1923 the house was converted into a hotel, Ethorpe Crescent was laid out in what had been the gardens and the shopping parades on the west side of Packhorse Road, between the railway and Ethorpe were developed. The main building has a number of shallow hipped roofs with some flat roofed 1920s extensions. Two storeys high, a parapet serves partly to obscure the roofs and chimney stacks and the hotel has a generally horizontal emphasis. Rendered and whitewashed. Portico with open pediment. The hotel has been extended. During the 1920s and 1930s several plans were approved drawn by the architects R G Muir and Robinsons & Roods. The building in Ethorpe Crescent is significant. It was designed by R G Muir in Tudor style with three steep gables facing the road and tall shaped chimneys. All in red/brown brick laid in English bond. This is a local building of note within the Conservation Area of Gerrards Cross Centenary. (B1).