Surcouf Hotel And Restaurant Surfcoat Hotel And Restaurant

The Surcouf Hotel and Restaurant, originally two town houses, dates from the 16th and 17th centuries and was remodeled in the 18th century. It features a rendered rubble exterior with windows that break the eaves. The building has a single-depth plan and includes a mid-19th century outshut at the rear left.

The structure stands three storeys tall, with the second floor partly within the roof space, and has a six-window range on the first floor. The early 19th century features include 16-pane hornless sash windows on the second floor to the left, three sashes on the first floor to the left and the fifth from the left, while the remaining windows are later horned copies or four-pane horned sashes. The ground floor left has two 20th century plate-glass windows flanking a pilastered doorway, which is topped with a moulded entablature and a dentilled cornice, leading to a pair of V-jointed doors.

At the rear, there is a three-storey, one-window range on the left with mid-19th century 12-pane sashes above a panelled and glazed door. The rest of the rear shows two storeys with a shallow jetty on the first floor and a three-window range featuring three-light, two-light, and single-light casements, most with four panes per light, along with a mid-19th century 12-pane casement on the ground floor left.

Inside, the hotel retains an original six-bay oak roof structure with morticed collars and curved feet where visible. The breast of the original rear lateral stack is visible in the mid-19th century outshut roof space. There is also one 18th century two-panel door and a mid-19th century open-well staircase with stick balusters.