The Falcon Hotel

The Falcon Hotel is a town house that has been converted into a hotel. It dates back to around 1500, with a second floor added around 1645, and has undergone restorations in the 20th century. The building features a timber-frame and plaster construction, with later brick added on a coursed rubble plinth. It has a tiled roof with an original central brick stack, which has been rebuilt with diagonal square shafts and end stacks. The hotel is three storeys high and has a seven-window range, with the upper storeys jettied on joist ends.

The entrance, located to the left of the centre, has a Tudor-headed design with a tiled pentice and paired battened doors. To the right, there is a 20th-century glazed door with side lights. The windows are mostly leaded, featuring ovolo-moulded mullions and transoms. The ground floor has three-light transomed rectangular bay windows flanking the entrance, along with three-light windows on either side. To the right of these, there is a four-light transomed bay window and two cross-casements, with a three-light window at the right end. The first floor has seven restored three-light transomed casements, with three on the left end flanked by original short three-light windows. The second floor features three-light windows. The close-studded framing is notable, and the left return has a three-light transomed bay window.

At the rear, there is a former stable block that is a single storey with an attic, featuring a modillioned brick cornice, two- and three-light windows, and one twelve-pane sash window, along with eight gabled dormers. Inside, the hotel showcases exposed chamfered beams and close-studded framing. The front room has 17th-century panelling, while some stone fireplaces are equipped with timber bressumers. A room at the rear contains an early 19th-century painted glass window. The building has been recorded as an inn since 1655-61, and the Royal Shakespeare Club held its annual dinner here from 1824.