The Sugar Loaf Public House

The Sugar Loaf Public House is a house that has been converted from a pair of attached houses, dating from around 1710. It underwent alterations in the late 18th century and early 19th century, with further conversion in the late 20th century. The building features roughcast, render, and brick construction with a clinker plinth, a brick lateral stack on the right, and a pantile hipped roof. It has a double-depth plan with three storeys and an attic, displaying a symmetrical three-window range on the early 18th-century elevation facing Host Street.

This elevation includes a clinker plinth below the ground-floor cills, a public house front at the right corner, and overhanging timber eaves cornice. The central doorway is topped with a timber pediment on moulded brackets and features a door with four raised panels. The windows consist of 6/6-pane sashes on the ground floor, 9/9-pane sashes on the first floor, and 6/9-pane sashes on the second floor, all in exposed frames. There are two hipped dormers, paired 8/8-pane sashes beneath a cornice for the public house, and a one-window right-hand return with paired 12/12-pane sashes on the public house front, with similar windows above.

The two right-hand sections that step up Christmas Steps have late 20th-century public house glazing on the ground floors. The middle section features left-of-centre hoist doors above with double doors, extending up to the brick stack, while the right section has ashlar lintels above first-floor plate-glass and second-floor 3/6-pane sashes. Inside, there are chamfered ceiling beams, a ground-floor fireplace, and a late 20th-century public house interior. The building was previously listed as Nos 1-7 Christmas Steps on March 4, 1977.