Castle Hotel Lakins Night Club The Bow Street Runner

TAMWORTH

SK2003NE HOLLOWAY 670-1/9/72 (East side) 11/05/50 Castle Hotel, Lakins Night Club and The Bow Street Runner

GV II

Includes: No.39 Castle Hotel and The Bow Street Runner MARKET STREET Tamworth. Hotel. Early C18 with mid C19 and c1900 additions. Brick with ashlar dressings; tile roofs with brick stacks. L-plan. 3 storeys; 4-window range. Weathered base, platt band over 1st floor and top wooden cornice. Entrance to right end has Tuscan porch with scrolled wrought-iron balcony, blind overlight to paired half-glazed doors. Windows have rubbed brick flat arches,those to ground floor have 4-pane horned sashes flanking 12-pane sash with thick glazing bars; 1st floor has 4-pane horned sashes, that to right end has stained glass; 2nd floor has 2-light casements with pegged frames, that to right end with stained glass. Cross-axial stack. Left return to Market Street has 5-window range with 4 Ionic pilasters, frieze and cornice to entrance with paired doors and flanking 4-pane horned tripartite sashes; 12-pane sash with thick glazing bars to left; 1st floor has 12-pane sashes with thick glazing bars, 2 altered; 2nd floor has pegged casements. Stack to rear of ridge. Mid C19 addition to right (Holloway facade) of 3 storeys; 2-window range with c1900 additions forming 4-storey, 3-window range; segmental-headed windows, 12-pane sashes to ground floor, 2 with thick glazing bars; 12-pane horned sashes to 1st and 2nd floors; casements to 3rd floor. End stacks. Similar 3-storey, single-window range to right of c1900. 2-storey, 4-window, garage range of c1900 to end; one large and 2 small shaped gables; 2 elliptical-headed carriage entrances with banded arches and hoods, one with paired plank doors, one with late C20 infill and similar flanking entrances, one now with inserted window. Ground floor has 2 elliptical-headed windows with keystones and hoods with fixed glazing; 3 similar windows to 1st floor, that to right end smaller, and large oriel to left end on large brackets with bowed centre, dentilled cornice and slate roof, some stained glass, datestone above. Several brick stacks. Market Street facade has C19 three-storey, 2-window, addition to left, 1st floor sill course, top coved cornice; ground floor has entrance with rounded upper angles and similar window to right; 1st floor has segmental-headed windows with 4-pane sashes and continuous hood; 2nd-floor windows have 4-pane sashes and shaped aprons. Rear has various gabled wings and additions, including single-storey wing under hipped roof. INTERIOR: chamfered beams and staircase with column-on-vase balusters. The hotel forms a significant element in Holloway and contributes to the setting of the castle (q.v.). The garage was an important early facility for motorists.

Listing NGR: SK2058903958