The Angel Hotel

HIGH STREET 1. 5303 (West Side) Nos 37 and 38 (The Angel Hotel) (formerly listed as The Angel Hotel and No 38) SP 7387 1/25 SP 7387 1/26 25.7.52. II GV

1. The original hotel has a good late C18 symmetrical stucco facade with bands at 1st and 2nd floor sill heights. Modern tiled plinth. Moulded wooden eaves cornice with low pitched slate roof. 3 storeys. 5 windows, sashes with glazing bars and boxed frames, those on ground floor with cambered head linings. Rectangular projecting central Tuscan porch with small cornice and modern iron balustrade above. Carriageway entrance to rear yard under No 36 (qv). Rear range of former stables. Small single storey gabled outbuilding with Venetian window in gable end visible from street. Irregular rear facade of C18 and C19 red brick and painted brick. C19 square bay shop window at rear of building. To the right a property now used as part of the hotel. Its facade is mid/later C18, but timber exposed in north side passage wall suggests an earlier core. Facade now painted white. Originally of 3 storeys but top raised in C19 and a steep slate roof with 2 C19 gabled dormers added. 3 windows, centre blind, outer windows 3-light unbarred ashes. Modern door in later C18 wooden doorcase with flat hood on plain brackets, small ornamental frieze, fanlight. Additional side entrance.

Listing NGR: SP7318987453