Angel Hotel

The Angel Hotel is a hotel rebuilt between 1774 and 1776 for the Guildhall Feoffees on the site of an earlier inn, designed by Mr. Redgrave. It features a 13th-century undercroft. The building is constructed of white brick with a slate roof that has a parapet, stone cornice, and triangular pediment.

The hotel has three storeys and attics, along with an undercroft and later cellars. The original section has rusticated brick on the ground floor and quoins, with a raised stone band below the first-storey windows. There are seven windows arranged in a 2:3:2 pattern, with the centre section slightly projecting. All windows are small-paned sashes set in deep reveals, and there is a Diocletian window in the pediment. The central doorway features a semicircular fanlight and is framed by a large projecting distyle porch in the Adam style, complete with a dentil cornice and ornamental cast-iron railings above. This entrance is accessed via flanking stone steps with cast-iron railings.

An arched carriage entrance on the left, added by William Steggles in 1818, was built over in 1921-1922 with a range matching the main building's height, featuring four sash windows on each storey.

Inside, the most notable feature is the fine 13th-century undercroft, now used as a restaurant, which consists of three bays with stone ribs supporting quadripartite vaulting and octagonal pillars. The ballroom, constructed in the early 19th century, is located over an open ground storey at the back of the former stable block facing Angel Lane. The five-window range that opens into the courtyard has been extended into the upper storey of the stable block. The interior walls are adorned with Ionic pilasters faced with mirror glass, each capital topped with a shell, and at the south end, the pilasters frame a large central mirror. This room was likely the Subscription Room of Thomas Bridgman, the landlord of the Angel, as noted in Payne's Survey of 1833. The Angel Hotel was sold by the Guildhall Feoffees in 1917.