Monument record 7198/189 - Former Buccleuch Hotel, 56 Stamford Road

The hotel was completed in 1891 to designs by Kettering architect and surveyor, Henry Alfred Cooper. The hotel, built of red brick with white stucco dressings and slate roofs, occupies a corner plot, and is an L shaped building, with two bays of three storeys to the north and east joined at the corner by an octagonal turret.

Buccelaugh Hotel, Barnwell Street / Stamford Road
Building still is still in use as a public house. The building has a range of industrial structures to the rear which may be connected with the running of the public house. Small scale brewery? Film 7, photo 13,14. (1)

{2} English Heritage has been asked to consider Zen Spice, 56 Stamford Road, Kettering, previously the Buccleuch Hotel, for listing. The building is not recommended for designation although it is considered to have local importance.

The proposal to build the Buccleuch Hotel was a response to a perceived lack of licensed premises within the rapidly expanding eastern edge of Kettering in the last decade of the C19. A newspaper report on the application to the Magistrates Bench records that although the population of the town had grown to about 21,000, there were 2 fewer licensed premises than there had been when it stood at only 7,000. The need for stabling and other accommodation was offered in support of the application. The hotel was completed in 1891, to designs by the Kettering architect and surveyor, Henry Alfred Cooper. The United Reformed Church, London Road, Kettering (1898), by Cooper and his then assistant, James Leonard Williams, is listed at Grade II.

The hotel, built of red brick with white stucco dressings and slate roofs, occupies a corner plot, and is an L shaped building, with two bays of three storeys to the north and east joined at the corner by an octagonal turret. To the west is a two storey range, and to the south, a long single storey stable range. White pilasters and a storey band divide the upper two storeys into quadrants, with cambered arched windows with keystones rising into the storey band between the first and second floors, and into the roof as double pitched Dutch dormers. There is a similar dormer to the two storey west range. All upper storey windows, and those to the ground floor of the two storey range to the west, have glazing bars to the upper sashes over plain single panes. To the ground floor the windows form a framed arcade to either side of the corner entrance, a round arched door with a drip mould over, a keystone in the form of a head supporting the elaborately decorative base of the turret, where the name of the hotel and date are scrolled across a foliate design. The ground floor windows originally contained decorative frosted glazing. There are tall narrow sash windows to the three sides of the turret on each floor, the turret surmounted by a conical roof. The stable range to the south presents an apparently unaltered elevation to the street.

<1> Ballinger J., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Industrial Period, (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN4.

<2> English Heritage, Designation Advice Report, 56 Stamford Road, Kettering (Report). SNN113190.

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Apr 8 2022 1:55PM