The Angel Hotel

The Angel Hotel, located at 37 and 38 High Street, is a Grade II listed building with origins in the late 18th century. The hotel features a symmetrical stucco facade that is characteristic of its time, complete with bands at the first and second floor sill heights. The building has a modern tiled plinth and a moulded wooden eaves cornice, topped by a low pitched slate roof. It stands three storeys tall and has five sash windows with glazing bars and boxed frames; the ground floor windows have cambered head linings.

A rectangular projecting central Tuscan porch, adorned with a small cornice, leads to the entrance, and there is a modern iron balustrade above it. A carriageway entrance provides access to a rear yard under the adjacent property, No 36. At the back, there is a range of former stables and a small single-storey gabled outbuilding featuring a Venetian window in its gable end, which is visible from the street. The irregular rear facade is made of 18th and 19th century red brick and painted brick.

Additionally, there is a 19th century square bay shop window at the rear of the building. To the right, another property now part of the hotel has a facade dating from the mid to late 18th century, although timber exposed in the north side passage wall suggests it has an earlier core. This facade is painted white and was originally three storeys tall but was raised in the 19th century, with a steep slate roof and two 19th century gabled dormers added. It has three windows, with the centre one being blind and the outer windows featuring three-light unbarred sashes. A modern door is set within a later 18th century wooden doorcase that has a flat hood on plain brackets, a small ornamental frieze, and a fanlight, along with an additional side entrance.