The Bush Hotel (Part Comprising The Elevation Above Ground Floor And Rear Structure In The Street Front To The Borough And The Western, Southern And Part Of The Eastern Ranges In The Yard Behind)

The Bush Hotel consists of a street front, a rear structure fronting the street, and ranges of buildings within the yard behind. The visible portion of the building dates primarily to around 1840, with alterations to the ground floor in 1931. The upper part of the Borough front is constructed of yellow brick, set above a ground floor of shop windows and a yard entrance framed in plain stone. A string course runs horizontally at the level of the second floor, and a heavy boxed cornice is supported by brackets. The roof is slate-covered. The front is seven bays wide, with a slight projection of the central five bays. There are seven windows on the second floor; five tall, four-light casement windows on the first floor, featuring splayed surrounds, recessed panels above, and flanking three-light windows with intact glazing bars. The yard entry leads to a large court featuring irregular blocks of red brick. Former stables are incorporated into the hotel. To the right of the yard entry is a low, two-story, one-bay block with a narrow, 19th-century splayed oriel bay window with glazing bars, flanked by doors. A block with a hipped slate roof and two ground-floor windows, one curved on the corner, projects forward to the left of this. Along the south-west side of the courtyard, the south-west range includes five windows above and modern glazing below, with a central doorway. The south-east range, facing the courtyard, has a single three-light sash window above and sash windows below. A portico projects forward in the left-hand corner. The north-east range consists of a portion of three window bays with a tile hip roof, adjacent to another portion of four window bays with a tile gabled roof. The garden front of the south-east range is two stories high, with ten window bays. It is constructed of red brick, with a tile roof. Sash windows with three panes are present on the upper floor, except for a small window above the entrance. The ground floor has sash windows and three French casements. A flush-panelled door with a fluted impost band is situated in the fifth bay from the left (south-west), featuring a three-light segmental headed fanlight and a wide segmental hood supported on low columns. Projecting forward to the right-hand, north-east end, of this range is a two-story, five-bay block of modern reconstruction (from the 1930s), incorporating a chimney from a former bank building designed by Norman Shaw. The Borough front of the hotel, together with Nos 29 to 44, forms a group.