Smuggler'S Hotel Smuggler'S Restaurant

The Smuggler's Hotel and Smuggler’s Restaurant are a town house, originally dating to the 16th century, with significant alterations in the 18th century. The front of the building is stuccoed over a rubble core, while the rear wing has painted rubble. A more recent wing to the rear left (northeast) is faced with asbestos cement slate hanging on studwork, and has a steep, rag slate roof with deep coved eaves and three dormers. There are two large brick lateral stacks at the rear of the front range. The roof visible at the rear has a parallel section, another at a right angle, with two 17th-century crested clay ridge tiles and a gabled dormer. The main frontage to Middle Market Street was rebuilt or remodelled in the 18th century, and is rectangular with a probable earlier cellar beneath. A further range extends to Higher Market Street. The interior contains a staircase at the junction with a 16th-century rear wing. A thick wall, likely from the 16th century, divides the front range from a wing to the rear left, which was entirely rebuilt in the 20th century. The exterior has three storeys with second-floor windows breaking the eaves, presenting a slightly asymmetrical three-window front. Early 19th-century 16-pane hornless sash windows are on the second floor and to the ground floor right. Taller 18-pane sashes, also of a similar date, are on the first floor; the left-hand window is mostly blind. A mid-19th century 12-pane sash window is situated on the left-hand side of a central doorway, which is set within an 18th-century doorcase featuring fluted pilasters, a modillion cornice, and panelled reveals. On the rear, a blocked, chamfered granite window, possibly dating to the 17th or earlier, is visible on the second floor of the 16th-century wing. Hornless sashes are present on the ground and first floors to the left. An original four-centred arched, chamfered granite doorway is located on the right. The wing to the rear left (northeast) was completely rebuilt in the mid-20th century, incorporating mid-20th-century sashes and a shop front rebuilt later in the 20th century. Interior features include 16th-century chamfered oak cross beams and joists, a chamfered granite fireplace with 18th-century hobs and an iron grating (on the ground floor of the rear wing), and visible beams in the chamber above. Also present is a blocked entrance, allegedly to a tunnel leading to the quay. There is an unusual open-well staircase with splat balusters of alternating column and twist profiles, newel posts rising to the cornices, and ball finials. The roof structures were not inspected, but are likely original, predominantly 18th-century at the front and 16th or 17th-century to the rear wing. The northeast wing, rebuilt in the mid-20th century, contains no architectural or historical features of significant interest.