Darlington Hotel

The Darlington Hotel, located on Fore Street in Camelford, likely began as a building dating to the late 16th or 17th century, with substantial remodelling and extensions added around the early 19th century. The construction is primarily rendered and painted stone rubble, with a timber frame on the front elevation and a rag slate roof with gable ends. There are brick and stone rubble stacks on the gable ends, and a brick stack is also present in the gable of the left-hand front wing.

The original layout may have been a 3-room and cross passage plan, with a projecting wing added to the higher end on the left. The ground level rises towards the rear and the left side. The lower end, which originally had a gable end stack, likely contained a hall heated by a rear lateral stack. The inner room was possibly unheated.

The front elevation displays a circa early 19th-century asymmetrical design, with later 20th-century extensions to the right and left, and a centrally set-back ground floor. The first floor contains three 4-pane sashes and a 3-light casement. The second floor also has sashes. A granite pier in the corner of the right-hand gable end indicates a former arcade, which was partly obscured by later extensions. The left-hand front wing also features a jettied first floor with granite piers, partially hidden by single-storey additions and a 19th-century wrought iron balcony. Various sash windows are present, with some blocked lower lights.

The rear elevation, facing Chapel Street, is two-storeys with a basement, and the ground level slopes downwards to the left. It features sashes and casements, with a mullion window on the second floor to the left of a truncated rear lateral stack. An asymmetrical square granite window frame, possibly dating to the 17th century, is set into the gable end, displaying visible mortices for stanchion bars.

The accessible ground floor interior was remodelled, and a full interior inspection is recommended to better understand the building's construction.