Hotel Ryde Castle

Hotel Ryde Castle is a building dating from around 1840, originally designed as a private house in a crenellated style, with later extensions to the east. It stands two storeys tall, constructed from stone rubble with ashlar quoins and features rendered coping on its crenellated parapets. The main facade faces the Esplanade and includes a square, three-storey entrance tower that has been raised by an additional storey to the south, with crenellation and square and octagonal chimneys at the corners.

The entrance tower has one window on both the first and second floors. To the west, there is a slightly recessed bay with two windows on the first floor and three on the ground floor, followed by a three-sided turret that includes slit windows at the front and a lancet window on the west side. Adjacent to this is a slightly taller section with two windows on the first floor and a rectangular bay on the ground floor. The hipped slate roof is visible through the crenellation.

The first floor of the entrance tower features a three-light canted bay with a mullioned and transomed parapet adorned with four gable-capped finials. The second floor has a three-light casement window. The ground floor rectangular bay at the west end is rendered with crenellation and includes a central French window flanked by sidelights. The other windows are two-light casements, with French windows on the ground floor of the recessed bay, all set in rendered surrounds with drip moulds above.

The entrance bay to the tower has a cornice and a shallow stepped pediment, with recessed modern double doors in a moulded four-centred arched surround and a drip mould above. Additional two-storey and single-storey wings have been added to the east, west, and south, designed to match the crenellated style, with drip moulds over the windows.

Hotel Ryde Castle is part of a group that includes Nos 1 to 7 and Nos 9 to 20, all of which are consecutive.