The Ancient Unicorn Hotel And Attached Rear Wing (Shown On Os Map As Unicorn House)

BOWES THE STREET NY 9913 (North side) 33/16 The Ancient Unicorn Hotel and attached rear wing (shown on OS map as Unicorn House) II Hotel. Mid C18 front block with altered and refronted C17 rear wing of 2 builds. Front block: dressed sandstone with squared rubble returns; graduated green slate roof; stone chimney stacks. Rear wing: squared rubble; left section has stone-flagged roof, right section has green slate roof; stone chimney stacks.

Front block: 3 storeys plus basement; 3 bays. Raised-and-chamfered quoins. Basement has central boarded door flanked by blocked windows. Replaced casements in moulded surrounds above basement string course. Stone eaves cornice. Roof with coped gables and shaped kneelers. Corniced end stacks.

Rear wing: set-back 2-storey, 2-bay left section facing courtyard has a Tuscan screen, now glazed, and 3 segmental relieving arches above. 2 replaced casements in moulded surrounds on first floor. Passage behind screen has two 16-pane sashes in moulded surrounds. Refronted 2-storey, irregular 3-bay right section has raised-and-chamfered quoins to left; 2 late C19 stone canted bay windows and 3 horizontal sliding sashes above. Mounting block to left. Left end and ridge stacks. Short 2-storey, gabled stair wing to rear, flanked by one-storey outshuts. 2-light chamfered-mullioned, first-floor window concealed by left outshut.

Interior: front block has cut-string, dogleg staircase of 3 flights plus landing rail, with 2 turned balusters per tread and a ramped moulded handrail.

C20 additions to left return of front block and at right end of rear wing,and attached farmbuildings to rear, are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NY9949513540