Crown Hotel Crown Hotel Including Former Brewery Adjoining At Rear

The Crown Hotel, including the former brewery at the rear, is a timber-framed building dating from around 1600, with significant alterations and additions in the late 18th or early 19th century, and a mid-to-late 19th century brewery added adjoining the rear. The building is constructed with timber framing, painted brick infill panels on a brick plinth, and some areas have been refaced and rebuilt in painted brick. One gable end is rendered. It has plain tile roofs, with a two-span roof to the right side.

The building exhibits jettied first-floor framing on two sides, supported by a moulded bressumer (refaced to the front). The left-hand return front features four shaped brackets, one carved with a trefoil and two with fluting. The framing has closely-spaced studs with a middle rail, although alterations have occurred to the ground floor. It is arranged in an "L" shape, with a short main range to the right and a projecting gabled cross wing of three framed bays to the left. There is a block in the angle at the rear and the former brewery is attached to the north-west.

The building has two storeys over a basement, with the cross wing being two storeys high. A dentil brick eaves cornice is visible on the right side, along with brick end stacks to the right and a central brick ridge stack on the cross wing. The front elevation originally had two windows; it now features 19th-century four-light wooden casements with segmental heads to the ground and first floors on the right side, and 20th-century four-light wooden casements on the cross wing to the left. A pair of one-panelled doors is centrally positioned within the angle of the cross wing, with a rectangular side-margin overlight. The right-hand gable end shows evidence of raised eaves. On the left-hand return front, there is a 20th-century three-light wooden casement to the left and a late 19th-century tripartite sash to the right, with a pair of boarded doors between and a narrow rectangular overlight.

The former brewery is constructed of red brick with a plain tile roof. It features a ground-floor chamfered corner to the left and projecting eaves and verge. A central gabled loft dormer has a segmental-headed boarded door. Other brewery windows include a first-floor segmental-headed four-pane sash to the right, a segmental-headed three-part louvred opening to the left, and a ground-floor tripartite sash to the right with a painted stone cill and lintel. A blocked segmental-arched carriageway, now with two inserted 20th-century casements, is located to the left. The left-hand gable end has a segmental-headed loft window and a first-floor boarded hoist door.

The block at the rear is likely a 19th-century remodelling of a former timber-framed range. Internally, a ground-floor room to the left has an ovolo-moulded ceiling beam and a chamfered dragon beam. A right-hand ground-floor room has a pair of cased beams. Chamfered ceiling beams are found elsewhere. A right-hand ground-floor rear room includes a 17th-century fireplace with an ogee-stopped chamfered wooden lintel. Timber framing appears to survive behind the brick skin over the gable end. The listing also includes Nos. 2 and 4, Queen Street.