Old Salisbury Hotel

The Old Salisbury Hotel, located on a corner site with Church Lane, dates from around the 1840s and 1850s. It is a three-storey building with a stucco facade, featuring a dentil cornice and parapet, and a string course dividing the floors.

The Union Street elevation has four windows on the second floor, one of which is blind. These windows have recessed, two-light casements with plain stucco surrounds, a frieze, a cornice, and sills matching the cornice moulding. These windows project slightly forward from the string course, supported by consoles. The first floor and ground floor have irregular window arrangements due to the sloping site. A large, rectangular bay window with three lights and later glazing bars is positioned next to the corner on the first floor, featuring Doric pilasters, a frieze, a bracketed cornice, and a small iron balcony supported by consoles. A recessed sash window, also with later glazing bars, is flanked by pilasters with broad fluting, scrolled brackets, and an entablature below the balcony. Directly beneath this is a recessed window where the base of the balcony serves as its entablature. To the right, a lower first-floor level incorporates an earlier canted bay window of three lights with sashes and glazing bars, pilaster divisions, a shallow cornice, and an apron. An identically styled window is located above it. A bowed sash window with intact glazing bars and a small cast iron balcony is set across the corner with Church Lane; the wall above this window is splayed to curve upwards and rejoin the main building’s angle at the second-floor string course. A modern cafe front occupies the ground floor corner.

Number 79, situated to the north, is a small shop from the 19th century, featuring a plate glass window framed by pilasters and a bracketed cornice. The upper floors along Church Lane have no visible windows. The ground floor retains the frame of the original corner shop, with Doric pilasters and a cornice. A taller, hipped-roof extension with a single window is located to the west.

The buildings at numbers 78 to 81 form a group.