Ilchester Arms Hotel

The Ilchester Arms Hotel occupies a street-line position and comprises an early 19th-century refacing of the two left-hand units, along with a late 18th-century build of the main facade to the right. The walls are of square dressed stone, with the right-hand block featuring Portland stone pilasters and framing a blocked carriage entrance, which has moulded imposts and a projecting keystone. Slate roofs are present, with ridges at varying heights for each unit, and brick stacks are positioned at the left-hand gable end, the ridge of the centre unit (backing onto the carriage entrance), and at the gable ends of the main facade to the right. The building is two storeys high, with dormers to the left and right units, each of differing heights. There are a total of eight windows. The left-hand unit has 2- and 3-light wooden casements with glazing-bars. The right-hand ground floor has 3-light cast-iron casements with glazing-bars. Stone lintels with projecting keys are present, and a cellar opening is visible at the left-hand ground floor. A blocked doorway is at the centre, with a depressed-arch head. Two dormers are present with 2-light wooden casements and hipped slate roofs. The centre unit has three windows; wooden casements with glazing-bars to the first floor. Ground-floor openings include a tall carriage entrance with 2-leaf plank doors and a wooden lintel, a panelled door with stone voussoirs, a 4-light cast-iron casement in a widened opening, and a 19th-century flush-panelled front door with matching reveals and a moulded architrave. A porch is supported by two cast-iron columns with a flat corniced canopy and features 19th-century cast-iron railings. The main facade has three tall sashes with thin glazing-bars, flared stone lintels with projecting keys, painted white, and stone cills. The centre bay projects slightly, topped with a steep pediment containing a painted achievement-of-arms of The Earls of Ilchester in the tympanum. A blocked carriage entrance has been filled with a matching sash window. Two dormers are situated over the outer bays, featuring 2-light wooden casements with hipped slate roofs. Attached premises at the rear of the left-hand unit are not of special architectural or historic interest.