Uplands Hotel

The Uplands Hotel is a house dating from the early 19th century, with an extension built around 1900, and later converted into a hotel with a conservatory added in the late 20th century. The original fabric is whitewashed brick, with roofs of black-glazed pantiles and machine tiles, including a hipped roof to the original house.

The original front of the house is two storeys and three windows wide, featuring a projecting central bay and angle pilasters. The ground floor is largely concealed by a full-length conservatory in front of French windows. The first floor has a single 6/6 unhorned sash window to the left of the elevation, and two casement windows with glazing bars to the right. A two-storey, three-bay extension is to the left. The extension’s ground floor has a half-glazed door and two 3-light cross casement windows to the left. The first floor of the extension has one 2-light casement window to the right and two oriel windows to the left. The fronts of both sections of the building are fitted with sashes and casement windows.

Inside, there is a close string staircase with turned balusters and a moulded handrail. A stained glass window on the staircase landing displays the arms of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London.

Notable residents included Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain, and Britain's first woman mayor, of Aldeburgh, in 1908. The poet George Crabbe also lived at the house.