Luxury golf and hotel complex in Bath to become £12m home

Plans have been lodged to transform Tracy Park near Bath from a hotel and golf course into a private residence. The Wick estate, boasting two championship 18-hole golf courses and a Grade II listed 40-bed hotel, was previously on the market with a guide price of £12 million.

The property, spanning over 200 acres, was the Tracy family's home for 300 years before its conversion into a golf hotel in 1974. The Shaw family acquired it in 2019 and in 2021, they expressed their ambition to turn the estate, located in the Green Belt and Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, into one of the region’s top four-star hotel and leisure complexes.

However, in July this year, it was announced to golf club members and those with events booked, including weddings, that the business would be closing at the end of September.

Now, Bath-based Lord Architecture has prepared a detailed planning statement for South Gloucestershire Council, outlining their client's intentions to convert an estate back to residential use

A statement with the application says: "Tracy Park is an historic estate situated five miles to the north-west of Bath’s World Heritage Site. Today the estate comprises over 240 acres of land, nine statutory Grade II listed buildings, additional ancillary non-designated buildings and two 18 hole golf courses.

"As a private residential estate for circa 800 years a collection of ancillary buildings have arisen and evolved around a principal Manor House. Tracy Park was sold at auction and converted to a golf and leisure complex with the Manor at its epicentre, hosting conferences and weddings.

"In 2024 the last in a series of commercial operators ceased trading and sold the estate to the current owner. In recent years many of the buildings on site have fallen into a state of disrepair and are inneed of restorative works.

"Despite the significant investment of several experienced commercial operators and a plethora of approved planning and listed building applications, many of these implemented over the past five decades, Tracy Park as a commercial venture has been deemed unviable by its most recent owner, operators and their specialist advisors

"The return of Tracy Park to a residential estate will secure much needed investment in the buildings and the wider site and ensure the longevity of Tracy Park for this and future generations.

"The proposals seek full planning permission and listed building consent for the change of use of Tracy Park Estate to residential. This application does not seek any physical internal or external alterations to any of the designated or non-designated heritage assets within the collective of buildings at Tracy Park. Nor does this application seek to alter the ability to understand, experience or appreciate these structures or setting of the site."

The statement assures: "The change of use will not result in any harm to the listed buildings or their setting but would rather preserve and enhance them for the benefit of this and future generations."