Arnos Manor Hotel

The original house on the Arnos Court site dated from the 17th century. In around 1740 the estate was bought by William Reeve, who had made his money through the production of copper and brass. 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. 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. Developments included a stable block in a castellated style, constructed from compressed slag generated from Reeve's metal furnaces, and an entrance arch which contains some genuine medieval fragments. The court itself was given a "superficial" Gothic makeover. 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. 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. ==Architecture and description==

Arnos Court Hotel is a three-storey main block, with an attached service wing. The planning is entirely classical, but the main house has what Foyle describes as a "superficial Gothic trim". The building was extended to the rear in the 19th century when it was used as a convent. The former convent building is listed at Grade II. ==Gallery==

Black Castle Public House 4.JPG|The former stables to Arnos Court, now the Black Castle pub Arno's Court Triumphal Arch 3.JPG|The former entrance gate to Arnos Court Portmerion - panoramio (12).jpg|The frontage to the former Arnos Court bathhouse, now at Portmeirion, Wales ==See also==