12, Angel Hill

12 Angel Hill is a hotel that was originally a house, with a core dating back to the 16th century. The front range was added in the early 19th century, and a top storey was added in the early 20th century. The building was restored in the 1980s. It features a white brick front and a timber-framed and rendered rear, topped with a slate roof that has a wide eaves overhang and a small modillion cornice.

The exterior has three storeys and a cellar, with a four-window range that includes small-paned sashes, which were reinstated in the 1980s. These windows are set in deep reveals with stone sills and flat gauged arches. A raised brick band runs along the first storey at window sill level. The central entrance is accessed by a flight of stone steps with shaped balusters leading to cast-iron railings. The entrance features a six-panel door with moulded surrounds and a rectangular fanlight, all framed by a Greek Doric doorcase with fluted pilasters and a cornice adorned with a triglyph frieze.

Inside, the cellar has walls made of a mix of flint rubble, stone blocks, and brick, with a stone doorway that has a segmental-arched head, appearing to be original and rebated for a door. The entrance hall is paved with limestone flags featuring black dots and includes a well-crafted geometric staircase with stick balusters, a wreathed handrail, and bracketed treads. A large semicircular-headed small-paned sash window on the rear wall, which once illuminated the staircase, has been blocked by a later rear extension. A small wing, positioned at right angles to the front, has a ground-floor room lined with square Jacobean panelling, likely reused, and an internal chimney stack with a stone fireplace surround that has been significantly restored, but retains an original decorated spandrel. A change in the brickwork above the first storey windows indicates where the roof was raised during the Edwardian period.