The Castle Hotel

The Castle Hotel is a hotel built in 1719, with a mid- to late-18th century addition at the rear. It was originally constructed from limewashed coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring a rendered plinth and a hipped slate roof. The building is L-shaped, with two storeys and an attic above a cellar. It has a plinth, plat bands, a moulded eaves cornice, two hipped dormers with two-light casements, two ridge stacks, and a stack at the rear.

The façade has a rhythm of two: three: two bays, with the central three bays projecting and topped by a triangular pedimented gable. The windows are glazing bar sashes with flush boxes and flat arches featuring keystones. There is an attic sash in the gable with a datestone above it. Access is via five semi-circular plan steps leading up to two half-glazed flush-panelled doors, which have a two-part rectangular over-light, deep panelled reveals, and a doorcase with panelled pilasters and a bracketed moulded hood. A large painted sign is located in the central first-floor bay above the door.

On the south front, there is a central flat-topped dormer with a three-light casement, flanked by two hipped dormers with two-light casements. To the right on the first floor, there is a blind window, and to the left, there are two tripartite glazing bar sashes. The ground floor features two glazing bar sashes flanking the tripartite glazing bar sashes. A late-20th century gabled porch is situated between the first and second windows from the left.

Inside, the ground floor front room to the right contains early-18th century raised and fielded panelling, a dado rail, a moulded cornice, and a bolection-moulded panel above a 20th-century fireplace. The early-18th century staircase rises two storeys and has been altered between the ground and first floors. It features three flights on each floor, with landings and a rectangular well, turned balusters, a closed string, a moulded handrail, and square newel posts.