The Sun Hotel

The Sun Hotel is an 18th-century house, largely rebuilt in 1825 by John Muers for the Lewin family. It is constructed of ashlar to the front and squared stone of varying quality to the other elevations, with a Welsh slate roof and some brick stacks. The building is situated on a sloping site, facing uphill, and incorporates three rear wings and an outshut.

The front elevation is divided into two sections. The right-hand part is three storeys high and symmetrical, with three bays. It has a plinth and rusticated quoins. The central door consists of six beaded panels, with a patterned fanlight above, set within a surround of fluted columns and an open-pedimented hood. A 12-pane sash window is located above the door. The outer bays have tripartite sashes to both the ground and first floors; the top floor features 9-pane short sashes, some of which have been renewed. A moulded eaves cornice runs along the top. Coped gables are present, and the right end has a stepped-and-corniced stack, while the left end stack has been rebuilt on its original base. The left-hand part is two storeys high with an attic, and is also symmetrical, with three bays. It features a central six-panel door with an 8-pane overlight, topped by a cornice on console brackets, with tripartite sashes on either side. Above are 12-pane sash windows. A moulded eaves cornice is broken by a central open-pedimented half dormer, which contains paired renewed 9-pane short sashes. A coped gable is present at the left end. All windows have slightly projecting sills.

The right return elevation displays a two-bay gable end of the front block, showing blocked windows on the ground and first floors to the left, a 12-pane sash window to the first floor on the right, and 9-pane short sashes to the top floor. To the right of this, and behind a 20th-century sun lounge, is an 18th-century three-bay rear wing with a 19th-century first floor addition; this wing features a central renewed door and ground-floor 12-pane sashes, all set beneath keyed supra-lintels, along with renewed 12-pane sashes above. The roof of this wing is hipped to the right.

The left return and rear elevations contain various sash and casement windows.

The interior of the front block features six-panel doors with beaded mouldings. The Cocktail Bar (located on the ground floor to the right) has a floral cornice and an anthemion frieze. A dog-leg staircase has stick balusters, a moulded handrail, a panelled lower newel, and carved tread ends; the upper part has been altered. The Dining Room in the rear wing has fielded-panel doors and shutters, a fluted frieze, and a dentil cornice.

The attached sun lounge is not considered to be of special architectural interest.