Crown Hotel Market Place

The Crown Hotel, located in the Market Place on High Street, is a hotel that dates from the mid to late 18th century. It has undergone alterations and extensive additions in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features a cement-rendered exterior and a pantile roof. It is two stories tall and has a symmetrical facade with a pattern of one, two, one, two, one, two bays. The first bay on the left is set back and likely an addition, with painted, cemented quoins.

Bays four and seven have two-storey round-arched recesses; bay four includes a panelled double door with a fanlight that has radial glazing bars, while bay seven features a segmentally-arched carriage entrance. All ground-floor windows have projecting sills and sashes with glazing bars set in reveals. On the first floor, there is a sill band beneath single-hung, nine-pane sashes, with 20th-century shutters throughout. A dentilled band runs beneath a projecting parapet, which displays the words 'CROWN HOTEL POSTING HOUSE' in raised lettering beneath ashlar copings that rise to form a gable over the original two-bay centre.

There is a brick ridge stack to the left of bay two and a rendered stack at the right end, shared with the adjacent premises at No. 39 High Street. At the rear, twelve cast-iron columns support a verandah along the left side of the carriageway. Inside, the staircase features nosed stone steps and a wrought-iron balustrade adorned with crown motifs, along with a wreathed and ramped wooden handrail. The earliest reference to the Crown Hotel is noted by P. Tuffrey in 1772.