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Arnos Manor Hotel
Arnos Manor Hotel (formerly Mount Pleasant, Arnos Court or Arno's Court) is an 18th-century house, now a hotel, in Brislington, a southern suburb of the City of Bristol in south-west England. The original house dates from the 17th century. In around 1740 the estate was bought by William Reeve, a Bristol industrialist, who converted the first house to a service wing and built a new mansion next to it. Reeve's architect was likely James Bridges. In the 1760s, Reeve embellished the estate with the construction of a stable block in the form of a mock castle, now the Black Castle public house; an entrance archway, the Arno's Court Triumphal Arch; a bathhouse with a colonnaded frontage; and by giving the front of his new house an early Gothick makeover. The hotel is a Grade II* listed building, while the Black Castle pub is listed at Grade I, and the Triumphal Arch at Grade II*. The bathhouse was demolished in the 1950s, when its colonnaded façade was moved to Portmeirion in North Wales. This structure is also listed at Grade II*. HistoryThe original house on the Arnos Court site dated from the 17th century.[1] In around 1740 the estate was bought by William Reeve, who had made his money through the production of copper and brass.[2] Reeve repurposed the original house as a service wing and built a new house adjoining it in a neoclassical style. His architect may have been James Bridges.[1] In the 1760s, Reeve redeveloped the estate as a pleasure ground, using an early Gothic Revival style. Andrew Foyle, in his Somerset: North and Bristol volume in the Pevsner Buildings of England series, revised and re-issued in 2011, suggests the Gothic work may have been by the Bristolian builders, Thomas and James Paty.[a][1] Developments included a stable block in a castellated style, constructed from compressed slag generated from Reeve's metal furnaces,[3] and an entrance arch which contains some genuine medieval fragments.[4] The court itself was given a "superficial" Gothick makeover.[1] The estate was heavily developed in the 20th century, and the bathhouse Reeves had constructed in the grounds was demolished, its façade salvaged by Clough Williams-Ellis who re-erected it in the grounds of his fantasy village, Portmeirion, on the North Wales Coast.[1] The stables, now a public house, were separated from the court by a road widening scheme for the A4, and the arch was moved to its present location.[4] The court is now a hotel.[5] Architecture and descriptionArnos Court Hotel is a three-storey main block, with an attached service wing. The planning is entirely classical, but the main house has what Andrew Foyle describes as a "superficial Gothic trim".[1] The building was extended to the rear in the 19th century when it was used as a convent.[b][6] Arnos Manor Hotel is a Grade II* listed building.[2] The Black Castle pub is listed at Grade I,[3] and the Triumphal Arch at Grade II*.[4] The colonnaded façade of the bathhouse, now at Portmeirion, is also listed at Grade II*.[7] The former convent building is listed at Grade II.[6] Gallery
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