The Dickens Hotel

The Dickens Hotel is a former terrace of three houses, now functioning as a hotel, built around 1840. It is constructed of Flemish bond gault brick with plain plaster details and has a slate roof. The building stands three storeys high with attics, featuring two bays for each house. The ground floor of each house includes one tripartite plate glass sash window, while the first and second floors have two 4-pane plate glass sashes each. A Tuscan Doric verandah with eight columns creates three porches, along with one additional intermediate column, and is topped with a cornice and parapet. The building has rusticated quoins, a rusticated first-floor plat band, and a parapet with a cornice. There is a single stack, and all arched doors have been replaced with plate glass doors; notably, the door to No 6 has been entirely replaced with a window. The building has a long return to Nag's Head Lane, which features more pronounced Italianate details in its openings, while the right return is completely plain.