The Feathers Hotel

The Feathers Hotel is a building with origins in the 17th century, significantly remodelled in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It originally comprised a hotel and two houses, now functioning as a hotel. Two houses dating from around 1820 are located at the extreme left. The construction uses various materials including coursed limestone rubble, colourwashed to the front, gabled Welsh slate roofing, and brick. The central house has an early 19th century refronting of a 17th century structure and features a similar stucco front.

The front facade is arranged in three sections. The two-window range on the left has a bracketed stone slate pentice over a 20th century door with overlight and 20th century bay windows. Horned and unhorned 8-pane sashes are above. The central three-window range has a similar pentice over 20th-century double doors, a 20th-century casement, and a mid-19th century bay window with horned sashes. The first floor has 20th-century windows and a reset 14th-century canopied statue of the Virgin Mary above the doorway. The second floor has 8-pane sashes. A late 18th century block, likely around 1770, is located on the right, constructed with Flemish bond brick, stone dressings, storey bands, and a moulded stone cornice beneath a parapet. It has a gabled and hipped concrete tile roof and an L-plan shape with a recessed wing attached to the right. This section features a panelled carriage door set in an archway with a keyed segmental-arched architrave, and a 19th-century six-panelled door with decorative overlight within the carriageway itself. Keyed raised architraves surround 6-pane sashes, with segmental arches over horned and unhorned 6-pane sashes to an early 19th-century bay on the left. An early 19th-century rear left wing uses limestone rubble and a Welsh slate roof, with sashes to the rear right.

Interiors contain 19th-century panelled doors. A passage between the left and central blocks retains part of an early 17th century chamfered plank and stud screen, along with an early 19th century quarter-turn staircase to the rear. Part of an early 17th-century winder stair with a newel post is on the first floor. The ground floor of the central block includes boxed beams and mid-18th-century panelling, with a bolection-moulded overmantle set over a segmental-arched fireplace with a moulded mantle. A stair-hall with a stone flag floor, an early 19th-century dog-leg staircase with a landing, and barrel-vaulted cellars are located to the rear of the panelled room. The first floor to the right and the attics were not inspected, but are likely to contain features of interest.