Plummers Hotel

Plummers Hotel is a former house, dating from the early 18th century. It was raised and extended in the late 18th century, with further alterations in the early 19th century and the 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick, partly colourwashed, with pantile roofs and brick stacks. It has a T-plan layout. The front elevation presents three storeys and five bays, arranged in a 2:1:2 configuration, with bands marking the first and second floors and an added brick parapet. A central six-panel door has an overlight, panelled reveals, a narrow lead hood supported on slender pillars with roundels, and is flanked by pairs of 20th-century glazing bar windows with top casements. Above, there are five similar windows, and above that, five small glazing bar sashes. All windows have segmental brick heads. To the right, a single bay, separated by a building line, contains single blank openings to each floor. At the rear is a later 18th-century two-storey brick range, originally used as coaches and stabling, featuring three double planked doors with segmental arches and fluted keyblocks, alongside two narrower single planked doors, flanked by single 20th-century windows under segmental brick heads. A later, wider opening is set under a timber lintel; first floor sashes are visible at each end under segmental brick heads. The interior retains a dogleg staircase with turned balusters and a moulded handrail. There are early 19th-century architraves, fluted with roundels. One first-floor room contains reset full-height panelling with a small fretted frieze. Frieston Shore was developed as a bathing resort in the late 18th century and remained popular throughout the 19th century, but it declined after being bypassed by the railway. The marshland outside the sea bank has recently been reclaimed.