The Bridgewater Arms Hotel

The Bridgewater Arms Hotel dates from the 18th century, with later 19th-century extensions. It is constructed of red brick with vitrified headers and lighter red arches, and has hipped slate roofs. The main building is a compact three-storey block, three windows long, with a lobby entrance and an internal chimney positioned a third from the north end. A C19 gabled Gothic timber porch with a round-headed recess and nameboard sits above a six-panel door within a heavy frame. The windows are graduated recessed sashes with flat gauged arches and a mix of 3/3, 3/6, and 6/6 panes from top to bottom. Overhanging eaves have a plastered soffit. A short south wing features an early 19th-century projecting stucco porch with Doric columns, a full entablature, and a blocking course, with a round-headed doorway and fanlight. A north wing, originally single-storey, was extended and floored in the early 20th century. It has four segmental-headed windows rising through the eaves and two long three-light casements with flat gauged arches below a floor band. A bulky, later mansarded rear wing is not considered of particular architectural interest. The interior reveals a central chimney, partly cut away, and axial beams, chamfered where exposed in two rooms, with ogee stops of two differing patterns.