Crown Hotel

The Crown Hotel is a hotel built in 1778 by Henry Holland, featuring a brick structure with ashlar dressings and brick end stacks. It has a double-depth plan and is designed in the Georgian style. The building stands three storeys tall and has a symmetrical three-window range with bowed ends. There is a platt band above the ground floor and a cornice at the top. The entrance features an Ionic porch with a flagpole that supports a scrolled wrought-iron bracket above, along with an overlight and paired half-glazed doors, flanked by lanterns. The windows have sills and rubbed brick flat arches; the ground floor windows include 8:12:8-pane tripartite sashes, while the first floor has similar sashes flanking a 12-pane sash in a round-headed recess, and the second floor has 6-pane sashes.

The right return of the building includes a two-storey 19th-century rear wing that projects with a bowed re-entrant and features a 20-pane sash. Most of the windows are casements, with segmental-headed windows on the first floor. The right end has a late 19th-century shop front with panelled pilasters and a blocked entrance, along with extensive 20th-century additions.

Inside, the hotel has early 20th-century fittings, including an open well stair with splat balusters, panelling, and two timber fireplaces. Historically, the hotel was significant as a staging post for coaches on the London-Holyhead and London-Carlisle routes and served as a mail distribution point. Notably, a room at the hotel was used by the Blessed Dominic Barberi for the first Catholic Mass in Stone since the Reformation in 1842, marking the beginning of the Catholic revival in the area.