The Bembridge Hotel

The Bembridge Hotel is a Grade II listed building that originally served as a hostel and was constructed in the mid-19th century. It features rendered brickwork with double-gabled hipped slate gambrel roofs and a gabled slate-roofed block at a right angle to the main structure.

The main part of the building is two storeys high with an attic and has a four-window range, along with a two-storey rear range. The front elevation includes three segmental-headed dormers with nine-pane sash windows, set behind a plain parapet with stone coping. There is a stucco-moulded cornice at the base of the parapet and thin corner pilasters. Each storey has two wide and two narrower margin-glazed sash windows, which are framed by broad stucco surrounds with square decorative corners.

On the north-west elevation, there is a nine-pane sash window with a moulded surround in each attic, flush with the wall, and the ends of the valley are concealed by a parapet. The first floor features two recessed twelve-pane sashes, while the ground floor has a replica fluted Doric doorcase with a recessed entrance and a semicircular bow window that includes moulded cornice, small-paned sashes, and fluted thin pilasters. The rendered two-storey range at the rear has three sixteen-pane recessed sashes on each floor.

The south-west elevation has a small projecting flat-roofed block, a small-paned door to a fire escape on the first floor, one nine-pane sash in the attic, and one twelve-pane sash on the first floor. There is also a single-storey rear range with a slate roof and slate-roofed lean-tos. The rear elevation features 20th-century dormers and red English-bond brickwork.

The building was originally constructed as an employees' hostel by Bentall's.