The Castle Inn

The Castle Inn is a public house and former hotel, built around 1850. It was previously listed as The Castle Hotel.

The building is constructed of brick, featuring painted brick on the ground floor and stucco detailing, topped with a slate roof. It occupies a corner plot with a curved northeast corner.

This three-storey structure has a stucco plinth around the street elevations, with a stucco block course and cornice between the ground and first floor. The High Street elevation includes a two-window arrangement, a curved window bay with the main entrance that has a modern door and rectangular overlight, and a three-window elevation facing John Street. The ground floor features tall windows with segmental-arch heads, along with a later door and flat-arch window at the south end of the High Street elevation. In the centre of the John Street elevation, there is a blocked doorway framed by a stucco surround with chamfered edges and a cornice above. Some ground-floor windows are adorned with etched detailing and coloured glass. An additional doorway at the east end of the John Street elevation leads to a later two-storey single-bay addition that provides access to the rear yard.

On the first floor of the main range along the High Street elevation, there is a canted-bay window and a bow window, both featuring three-light sashes with aprons and cornices. The remaining windows on this floor are three-over-three sashes set in recessed openings, with block cills and segmental brick arches. The second floor has smaller three-over-three sashes, and the windows on the corner follow the curve, featuring stucco lintels. The street elevations are topped with a parapet that has a projecting cornice, and the building is capped with a double-pile slate roof that includes rendered stacks.