The Crown Public House

The Crown Public House is a hotel that has been converted into a public house, built between 1895 and 1896. It features red brick with stone dressings and a gabled Welsh slate roof, complete with pierced ridge tiles and terracotta finials. The building has a long, approximately rectangular plan with four bays on one side and is situated on a corner site, with the main entrance located at the corner.

In the Victorian Gothic style, the exterior stands three storeys high. The Wolverhampton Street elevation has one bay, while the Priory Street elevation has four bays, each topped with gables that include bargeboards, wooden arched braces, and pendants. The bays are accented by brick pilasters with stone capitals and feature wooden canted bay windows on the first floor, which have slate canopies with ornate iron cresting that form balconettes for the second-floor windows. The bay windows are flanked by corner pilasters and have Ipswich glazing. The first-floor windows are designed with cambered arches and dripmoulds. Notably, the left bay of the Priory Street elevation contains a pair of lancet windows on the first floor, and there are moulded brick stringcourses throughout.

The southwest corner of the building features a round turret on the first and second floors, with stone pilastered windows, topped by a stone gabled clock tower that has colonnettes at the corners and an octagonal spire with a cast-iron finial. At the northwest corner, there is a wooden oriel with an iron finial on the spire. The ground floor is designed as a public house front, showcasing stone pilasters with capitals and shaft-rings, along with canted bay windows that have glazed brick risers and etched glass. The corner entrance includes panelled double doors with a fanlight featuring leaded panes.

The interior has been altered, but the staircase and a plaster ceiling on the first floor have been preserved.