Webb's Hotel

Webb's Hotel is a hotel built in 1833, designed by J Foulston of Plymouth. The building features incised stucco on rubble above a coursed freestone plinth, with mid-floor bands and a hipped dry Delabole slate roof that has a moulded cornice under deep eaves. It has large stucco axial stacks and cast-iron ogee gutters. The hotel has a large square plan and is designed in a classical style, standing three storeys over a basement with a symmetrical five-window entrance front. The original hornless sash windows, most with glazing bars, are set within moulded eared architraves. The central doorway has panelled reveals, a pair of top-glazed doors, and a patterned fanlight, all framed by a granite distyle Tuscan porch. The side facing Pike Street has a six-window range with similar details and a doorway to the basement with a stucco doorcase. The interior includes many original or later 19th-century features, such as a modillion cornice in the entrance hall, an inner doorway that resembles the outer doorway, a wide open-well open-string staircase with Vitruvian scroll detail, and a reeded ceiling cornice in the large stair hall, along with similar detailing on door panels. This hotel is a fine example of its type and makes an important contribution to the townscape.