Queen'S Hotel

Queen's Hotel is an early to mid 18th century house that has been converted into a hotel. It is constructed of local brown brick and features slate roofs with internal facing hips and gable parapets with end stacks. The building stands three storeys tall with a basement, and it has a parapet with stone coping, a cornice, a first-floor band, and a plinth. The red brick quoins and window jambs add to its architectural detail.

On the first floor, there are six recessed six-paned hung sash windows, which are set in cambered, gauged brick arches with painted reveals. The ground floor features five similar windows, with six twelve-paned windows on the first floor. The entrance, located to the right of centre, has a stone doorcase with Ionic columns and a pulvinate frieze. It is topped with a moulded, round-headed stone architrave that frames an eight-fielded-panelled door and a fanlight with interlocking glazing bars.

The interior was originally very fine but has been recently altered. The staircase is similar in detail to that of No. 14 North Brink, featuring turned balusters and a Vitruvian scroll string with a shaped and moulded handrail. The staircase hall boasts an 18th-century geometric limestone floor with black marble insets and an enriched cornice leading to a coffered ceiling. One original doorcase remains from the original three at the landing. The drawing room is adorned with rococo-plastered decoration on the coffered ceiling and a deep enriched cornice. It also includes three early 19th-century full-height casement windows shaped to round-headed architraves with panelled reveals in the south wall, along with some original panelled doors and two chimney pieces.