A MUSICIAN was left “dumbfounded” after discovering a swanky hotel in Cornwall is shaped like an ejaculating penis.
Colin Peake couldn’t believe his eyes when he spotted the phallic-shaped Scarlet Hotel in Mawgan Porth while browsing on Google Maps.
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The 44-year-old had performed at a wedding nearby and was told of the hotel’s unusual outline by a bemused photographer.
Believing it to be a wind-up, Colin jumped online and was stunned when he discovered the ‘”architectural kn*b gag” alongside pods that he says look like “drips” coming from the tip.
The luxury eco-hotel and spa, where rooms can cost up to £400 a night, was completed in 2009 by Devon-based architects Harrison Sutton.
It has gone on to be nominated for multiple awards over the years and scooped Michelmores’ Building of the Year Award in 2009.
Colin, from St Austell, Cornwall, said: “I don’t understand how it got as far as being built when the whole thing is an architectural kn*b gag.
“I think it’s hilarious, either they don’t know or they do know and don’t tell anybody.
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“I just think it’s weird that it’s won awards and nobody’s turned around and gone ‘hang on, this really looks like a penis with drips coming out of the end of it’.”
It was only after chatting with a photographer at a wedding last year that Colin learned of the building’s unusual shape.
Colin said: “I heard about this because I did a wedding gig with my band last summer [but] it wasn’t at the Scarlet Hotel.
“The photographer there told me about this, although I can’t remember how it came up in conversation.
“But she said ‘oh yeah, you see it on the map when you go into the hotel. It’s hilarious and nobody seems to have noticed it’.
“I thought ‘It can’t be true, she must be exaggerating.’ But I went away and looked it up, and I was absolutely dumbfounded.”
It remains unclear if the building’s phallic shape was a mishap or part of an expensive and elaborate joke.
Colin said: “This seems to have been done on purpose, and nobody seems to have noticed or cared.
“If it is an architectural joke, then it’s brilliant. It’s so big you wouldn’t see it from the ground, you’d only be able to see it from the air. It’s just so strange.”
Scarlet Hotel and Harrison Sutton both declined to comment.
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