Heythrop Park - Heythrop Park Hotel Golf & Country Club

Heythrop Park Hotel Golf & Country Club

Heythrop Park Hotel Golf & Country Club is a hotel with conference facilities and a golf course. The house has seventeen bedrooms and reception rooms and the restored and enlarged outbuildings and halls of residence contain a further 270 bedrooms.

The hotel and associated buildings are part way through a programme to refurbish them to make a conference centre and 2 hotels. The mid-20th Century lecture halls, which were demolished, had little to recommend them. The replacement building, now a Crowne Plaza franchise is in a similar architectural vogue. However, the development of the golf course and the main buildings has had an adverse effect on the condition of the gardens and relict features of the Talbot and Brassey era, with the consequent loss of rare and interesting trees across the estate. The gardens used to be quite special. Of particular note is the wide use of pulhamite in the Victorian hard landscaping, as found at Batsford Arboretum and elsewhere. English Heritage has had much input into preserving what remains of the ferme ornée but its ability to monitor the detail and enforce the small points of planning requirements seems limited.

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