Dog And Bear Hotel The Stores

The Dog and Bear Hotel and The Stores are two buildings located in Lenham, dating from the 15th or 16th century, with later facades added in the early to mid-19th century for The Stores and mid to late 19th century for the Hotel. The core structure is timber framed, featuring a painted brick ground floor and a weatherboarded first floor for The Stores, while the Hotel has a painted brick front. Both buildings have a continuous plain tile roof, with the eaves of the Hotel projecting slightly further. They are two storeys tall, with a cellar in the Hotel, and sit on a plinth.

The buildings have four red brick stacks: one ridge stack off-centre to the right of The Stores, a small ridge stack at the junction between The Stores and the Hotel, a stack in the rear slope of the roof to the left of centre of the Hotel, and a slightly projecting stack at the right gable end of the Hotel. The Stores features regular fenestration with two glazing-bar sashes and a central canted first-floor bay window. The 19th-century ground floor shop front is flanked by gabled pilasters topped with decorative iron fleur-de-lys, and includes a six-light plate-glass shop window with light painted iron arcading and a central recessed half-glazed door. To the left of the shop front, there is a door with four recessed panels and a rectangular fanlight.

The Hotel has irregular fenestration with six sashes, and a corniced balcony at the centre of the ground floor, supported by four iron columns with plain capitals and tall scrolled brackets. There are two half-glazed doors beneath the balcony. At the rear, The Stores has a short wing with a hipped plain tile roof. Inside the Dog and Bear Hotel, there is evidence of a jetty and a cross-passage with moulded joists on the ground floor, although the rest of the interior has not been inspected.