Fortescue Arms And Coach House

The Fortescue Arms is a hotel with a connected coach house, dating from the 15th century, with substantial alterations in the early 18th century, and further changes in the early 19th and 20th centuries. The hotel is constructed of painted and rendered brick with a hipped slate roof, featuring lead dressings. The coach house has a pantile roof. The hotel is two storeys with attics and has a three-bay front. It has a tall plinth and a first-floor band. The central entrance is a 20th-century door with a plain overlight, set within a wooden, pilastered surround and a narrow lead hood. To the right is a single, canted sash window with a flat lead roof, and to the far right a 20th-century rectangular bay with two doors. The first floor has three glazing bar sash windows. Two gabled dormers with plain sashes and slate cheeks are in the roof. To the right is a lower, two-storey service block with a plinth and band. This block has a central 20th-century door, a glazing bar sash window to the left, and a further canted bay window to the right. The first floor of this block has two glazing bar sashes. Beyond this is a two-storey coach house with a band on the right side only and a brick dentilated eaves course. The coach house features an off-centre, rusticated, basket-arched opening with a grotesque head carved over the keystone. Rusticated stucco quoins extend up to a dentilated, slightly projecting segmental hood. A planked door is situated to the left of the arched opening, above which is a single glazing bar sash window. The rear of the hotel displays brickwork of 15th-century origin.