Royal Hotel

The Royal Hotel is a late 18th-century corner building with frontages onto the High Street and Royal Terrace. The main materials are brick with incised stucco render at ground floor, and a slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan with two and a half storeys plus a basement. It features a parapet and a modillion cornice.

The east elevation, facing the High Street, has been extended to incorporate two 19th-century houses, and the south elevation has been extended to incorporate numbers 1 and 2 Royal Terrace. The original five-window range on the east elevation and three-window range on the south both feature double-hung sashes with vertical glazing bars and straight, gauged brick heads. The ground floor includes three projecting semi-circular entrance porches with six-panel doors, each topped with a semi-circular fanlight featuring radial glazing bars and a fluted architrave. The first floor of the east elevation includes a large assembly room with a Venetian window and a moulded stucco panel displaying the words "ROYAL HOTEL" in embossed and painted lettering. First-floor windows on the south elevation open onto a Victorian ornamental cast iron balcony, consistent with the balcony on numbers 1 and 2 Royal Terrace. Box dormers are present above the parapet on both the south and east elevations. Numbers 1 and 2 Royal Terrace are three storeys with a parapet and modillion cornice, with a Victorian ornamental cast-iron-covered balcony.

The ground floor contains a small entrance foyer leading to a refurbished public house interior from the early 21st century, including a bar, drinking area, raised seating, and a dining room. The basement, converted into a nightclub in the late 20th century, is sub-divided with partition walls to create a bar, dance floor, and seating areas. The 20th and 21st century fixtures and fittings on these floors are not of particular interest.

A hall with an open-well staircase featuring a wreathed handrail runs along the western side of the building, leading to the upper floors. A glazed, domed roof lantern illuminates the stairwell. The first-floor ballroom retains 18th-century fixtures and fittings, including matching fireplaces with marble hearths and moulded timber surrounds along the east wall, heavily moulded Italianate cornices and ceiling mouldings, moulded doorcases, jewelled wall-lights, heavy, gold-coloured chandeliers, a hardwood floor covering, and deep skirting boards. A kitchen and store area on the first floor retain decorative plasterwork features. The floors above have been separated from the hotel and incorporated into the adjoining High Street building; access was unavailable.