Royal Hotel

The Royal Hotel is a public house that incorporates two former houses, built in 1799 by architect William Wood. The front is made of Newham freestone ashlar, and the main building features an asbestos slate roof behind a parapet, with a hipped return on the left and late 19th-century gabled dormers. It has brick axial stacks. The smaller left wing has a hipped asbestos slate roof and a tall rendered stack on the left. The building has a large rectangular double-depth plan that was altered in the 20th century to include a shop that occupies the original part of the public house to the right of the entrance hall and the former house at the far right.

The structure is three storeys high with an overall eight-window range. It has a plinth, string courses, a moulded cornice at the parapet, and flat arches with key blocks, along with a low three-window front on the left wing. Originally, the public house had a symmetrical facade with a 1:3:1 fenestration pattern, where the central bays project forward. The central doorway is topped with a hood on consoles. To the right, there is a large 20th-century shop front that extends under the former house. The ground floor features two original hornless sash windows to the left of the doorway, while the others have been modified or are 20th-century with tilting lights, all retaining glazing bars. The small wing on the left has a symmetrical front with a central doorway that has a moulded hood, with stone ashlar on the ground floor and stucco above.

Inside, the hotel features original or early 19th-century moulded and carved plaster ceiling cornices and bands in two reception rooms on the left, which are connected by a wide segmental-arched doorway. The barrel vault of the entrance vestibule has two wide doorways with concentric spoked fanlights above pilasters.