Red Cow Hotel

The Red Cow Hotel and Assembly Room dates back to the 17th century, but was significantly refronted and raised around 1800, with later alterations in the late 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of colourwashed and rendered brick, with stucco dressings, and has a slate roof with two gable and one ridge stack. The main building is a three-storey, seven-bay front, featuring stucco bands on the first and second floors and overhanging eaves. The centrally positioned double-panelled front door has a leaded fanlight within a plain stucco surround, now accompanied by a 20th-century projecting glazed hood. This is flanked by pairs of 20th-century windows, with an open segmental carriage arch to the right, containing a further 20th-century window beyond. The first floor has six glazing bar sashes, including a 19th-century rectangular oriel window with scrolled wrought iron brackets and a hipped lead roof on the left side. The second floor has seven further sashes. All windows have cambered heads. To the right is a tall, single-storey plus cellar, three-bay Assembly Room with a concrete tiled roof and three grilled cellar lights. Above the cellar are three tall glazing bar sashes with a cill band and splayed brick arched heads. A six-panel door within the carriageway leads to the Assembly Room, featuring a radiating fanlight, wood-panelled reveals, fluted wooden pilasters with paterae, a semi-circular head with a keystone. The hotel's front rooms have semi-circular niches with fluted pilasters framing the fireplaces. A beam with run-out stops is also present. The Assembly Room is accessed via a staircase with a mahogany handrail. Inside, it features a flat, segmental blank arch with fluted pilasters and roundels, matching the architraves of the windows and doors, and a plaster cornice above a suspended ceiling.