Globe Hotel

The Globe Hotel is a former 18th-century town house that was later converted into a hotel. It has undergone significant alterations and enlargement during the 19th and mid-20th centuries, with complete remodellings of the interior in the mid-20th century and early 21st century.

The building’s construction incorporates stuccoed brickwork and colourwashed brick, with roof coverings of plain tile, slate, and artificial slate. The plan is L-shaped, with ranges facing King Street and Ferry Street, enclosing an internal courtyard at the rear.

The King Street elevation has a symmetrical design of five bays and three stories, topped by a deep modillioned eaves. The central entrance has 20th-century double doors and is flanked by debased Doric engaged columns supporting an entablature, the frieze decorated with triglyphs and guttae. There are two six-over-six-pane sash windows on either side of the entrance. The first floor has five similar windows, and the upper floor has five six-over-three-pane sashes. Painted quoins are visible at each end; the north-end quoin features an ornamental bracket with a figure of Atlas supporting a globe. A full-length painted banner displays “GLOBE HOTEL” within a roll-moulded surround, positioned between the first and second floors. To the south of the King Street frontage is a 19th-century two-story building now integrated into the hotel, featuring a narrow frontage with a doorway to the left and two glazing bar sashes on the ground floor, complemented by three two-over-two-pane sashes above. A tall ridge stack is located at the south end of the roof.

The Ferry Street return elevation has two bays, including a small dormer within the hipped roof end, and sash windows on each floor, matching the front elevation. One ground floor window has been altered to create a doorway. Back-to-back quoining marks the west corner of the building, leading to a 19th-century six-bay, three-story addition, characterized by ridge chimneys and a dentilled eaves. This wing has single and tripartite sash windows on the first and second floors, with 20th-century door openings inserted between the tripartite sash windows on the ground floor. Further west, a slightly lower five-bay range, similarly detailed, features single and tripartite glazing bar sash windows, alongside a cluster of four single-light 20th-century openings at ground floor level. A two-story, three-bay addition at the west end is not of particular note.

The interior has been completely redesigned to accommodate hotel and bar facilities, and no original features from the town house or the extensions remain.