Castle Hotel

The Castle Hotel is a late 18th-century building that has been altered in the 19th century and modernized and enlarged. It features a long front of four storeys that is faced with stucco. Originally, it had an eleven-window front divided into two parts, with a three-storey south wing that included 17th-century timber framing. The front is now symmetrical, as the south wing has been demolished and replaced by a new five-window, four-storey stucco-faced block with an open ground floor for rear access.

The ground floor of the original part has horizontal grooving on the piers between the openings, topped with moulded caps. There is a moulded cornice at the second-floor level, along with a moulded string course above the second floor, and a crowning cornice and parapet that extend onto the new south block in a similar style. All the windows are segmental-headed, with the five on the new block designed to match. The first floor features French casements with cornices on console brackets that open onto a continuous balcony decorated with an anthemion and scroll pattern. The ground floor has five large modern windows and a modern door to the left of centre, set within a wide architrave surround that includes a frieze and cornice above.

The Castle Hotel is part of a group that includes Nos 1 to 4 (consecutive), 4a, 5 to 9 (consecutive), 9A, and 10 to 26 (consecutive), along with the Dairy Pavilion in the garden of No 7 and Mistress Pages House.