Bear Hotel, Devizes

The Bear Hotel is a historic coaching inn in the market town of Devizes in Wiltshire, England.

It is formed of two distinct buildings and is now Grade II* listed by Historic England.

[3] The left front is from c.1700 and was given an ashlar facing, considered elegant by Julian Orbach, in around 1810.

[3] It has two full-height bay windows, flanked by reeded pilasters; the porch is slender ironwork.

He lived there between 1773 and 1780 and as a self-taught child artist he depicted travellers who stayed at the inn, many of them notable society figures on the way to fashionable Bath.

The Bear Hotel with its two distinctive adjacent buildings
Self-portrait by Thomas Lawrence , 1788