The Castle Inn

Public house and former hotel, built in around 1850. The building was previously listed as The Castle Hotel.

MATERIALS: brick building, with painted brick on the ground floor and stucco detailing, with slate roof.

PLAN: a corner plot with a curved north-east corner.

EXTERIOR: three-storey building. A stucco plinth runs around the street elevations and there is a stucco block course and cornice between the ground and first floor. There is a two-window elevation which faces onto the High Street, a curved window bay with the main entrance with a modern door and rectangular overlight, and a three-window elevation on John Street. On the ground floor are tall windows with segmental-arch heads. There is a later door and flat-arch window at the south end of the High Street elevation. In the centre of the John Street elevation is a blocked doorway boarded by a stucco surround with chamfered edges and a cornice above. Some of the ground-floor windows are decorated with etched detailing and coloured glass. There is an additional doorway, at the east end of John Street elevation, within a later two-storey single-bay addition, providing access to the rear yard. To the first floor of the main range, within the High Street elevation, is a canted-bay window and a bow window, both with three lights containing sashes, as well as aprons, and cornices. The other windows on this floor are three-over-three sashes in recessed openings, with block cills and segmental brick arches. The second floor has smaller three-over-three sashes. The windows on the corner follow the curve and have stucco lintels. The street elevations are topped by a parapet with a projecting cornice. The building is topped by a double-pile slate roof with rendered stacks.