Former Queen's Hotel

The Former Queen's Hotel is a building constructed in 1844 for the London and North-Western Railway Company, with later extensions in the 19th century. It is built of Flemish bond red brick, accented with yellow and blue brick dressings and buff sandstone surrounds, topped with a Welsh slate roof.

The hotel features a symmetrical three-bay front that rises three stories. The end bays contain three-light mullioned and transomed windows, along with a two-light mullioned window in the top storey. Each end bay is capped with shaped stone gables that have pointed finials. A central projecting porch has semicircular-headed openings on three sides, flanked by strip pilasters, with the hotel name displayed in the frieze. Above the porch, there is a two-light window and a single light with a stone-coped semicircular head at the eaves.

On the south front, there are 17 bays, with the eight bays to the right being later additions. The left side features stone-coped gable half dormers, while the first floor has semicircular-headed windows with heavy glazing bars, adorned with flat and segmental pediments that open onto balconies with iron balustrades.

The hotel was built at a cost of £6,000 as part of the railway's initiative to attract wealthy commuters to the area, and it remains an early and largely unaltered example of a railway hotel.