The Angel Public House

The Angel Public House is a public house that has likely been in use as an inn since the mid-18th century. It is primarily built from brick and features a Welsh slate roof. The building is three stories tall and has three bays, with a central doorway framed by a pediment and supported by consoles that carry an entablature. The windows on the ground and first floors are wide 20-pane sash windows with flat arched rubbed brick heads that include keystones. A change in brickwork and different window styles suggest that the upper story was added to an existing structure at the end of the 18th century. The upper windows are 16-pane sashes with single ring segmentally arched heads. The building also has a dentilled eaves band, a large projecting stack on the east side, and a smaller, possibly later stack on the west gable. Early descriptions of "Stourmouth" mention an inn by the river as one of the few buildings that predated the establishment of the new town, suggesting that the Angel is a successor to that early inn. It is also depicted in an engraving of the early canal structures from 1773.