Warkworth House Hotel

Warkworth House Hotel is an early 19th-century house, now a hotel, built in 1822 for John Forster. It incorporates fabric from an earlier 18th-century building to the rear. The main part is constructed of squared stone of near-ashlar quality, while the rear elevation is roughcast and cream-washed. The roof is covered in Scottish slate on the main part, Welsh slate on the left part and a two-storey rear wing, and synthetic blue slate on a single-storey part of the rear wing. Two yellow brick stacks rise from the rear roof slope.

The main part of the house is three storeys high, with a symmetrical facade of two-plus-one-plus-two bays. It features a plinth and sill bands. The central entrance has a six-panel door with a patterned fanlight, set within a surround of Tuscan columns and an open pedimented hood. Twelve-pane sash windows are present on the lower floors, with six-pane sashes above. The building has a moulded cornice and a parapet with moulded coping, end pilasters and a pediment over the centre bay. Coped gables feature stepped-and-corniced end stacks, and original rainwater heads are located at each end of the façade. A two-storey, three-bay section to the left has sill bands, a three-centred carriage arch at its left end, and twelve-pane sash windows. It also has a moulded eaves cornice, coped left gable, and rendered end stacks.

The rear elevation shows an 1822 two-storey outshut built onto the rear of the 18th-century house. An arched stair window is fitted with a 28-pane sash with an intersecting head. To the left, a projecting rear wing is partly one storey high with paired and triple twelve-pane sashes on its inner return.

The interior features six-panel doors with beaded mouldings, and shutters. The entrance hall is adorned with a Greek key frieze and ceiling rose. The Batek Bar (on the ground floor to the left) has a floral cornice and a ceiling with a sunburst and harebell border. The Games Room has an old floral cornice. The staircase and stairhead balustrade were installed in 1822, sourced from Brandenburgh House, the residence of Queen Caroline. These feature patterned wrought-iron balusters, a moulded and wreathed handrail, carved tread ends, and a stairhead with a bucranium frieze and a panelled plaster ceiling with Greek Key and floral patterns. An old lantern may be contemporary with the staircase. A rear wing contains an 18th-century segmental-arched fireplace.

Marble mantels that had previously been at Brandenburgh House have been removed and sold. Outbuildings attached to the rear wing are not considered to be of historical interest.