Mortimer House The Old Castle Inn

Mortimer House and The Old Castle Inn is a public house, cafe, shops, and offices built in 1883 by Watson Fothergill. The building has been altered in the late 20th century and is constructed of red brick with ashlar and blue brick dressings, featuring gabled and hipped plain tile roofs and various stylized stacks. It is designed in a Domestic Revival style and consists of two and three storeys plus attics, with a total of 14 windows across five bays.

The windows are primarily wooden framed cross casements with segmental heads. The central section has two blocks with a staggered roofline and a prominent ridge, gable, and front wall stacks. To the left, there is a hipped dormer. Below this section, a double doorway with a tiled canopy is flanked by three-light windows. To the right, a late 20th-century shopfront features French windows.

At each end of the building, there are facing gables; the higher left gable features a timber-framed oriel window on the first floor, while the right gable has two first-floor windows and single windows above and below. Further to the right, a rounded corner has two windows under a parapet, and above it, a short round turret with a hipped dormer window and a conical roof. Below this turret is an original shopfront with a cross mullioned window and cast-iron columns.

The public house, located at the left corner, has an angled corner entrance bay flanked by cross mullioned shop windows. Above this entrance, there is a timber-framed oriel window supported by wooden arch brackets. To the right, a square tower rises four stages high, featuring two large side wall stacks and a hipped roof topped with a weather vane. The ground floor includes a pointed arched doorway, and the left return to Houndsgate displays regular fenestration and a projecting side wall stack.