Catherine Wheel Hotel

The Catherine Wheel Hotel, located at 7 to 13 Hart Street, features an 18th-century facade that conceals earlier 16th and 17th-century buildings. Once a significant coaching inn, the hotel has a stucco exterior with a rusticated ground floor on the western end and a decorative band below the eaves. The western half of the roof is slate, while the eastern half is covered with old tiles. The building is two storeys high at the western end and three storeys at the eastern end. It has two groups of six sash windows with glazing bars, including two two-storey canted bay windows at the west end. The central window is framed with a wooden architrave and has a label above it. There are three doors; the two outer doors are flanked by engaged Doric columns, while the central door, dating from the 19th century, features a moulded head and a carved tympanum. Above the west door, there is an iron balcony. A carriageway entrance leads to the rear courtyard, and timbering is visible in the wall. The hotel is part of a group that includes Nos 5 to 39 (odd), the Drinking Fountain, the Parish Church of St Mary, and several other buildings along Hart Street.