Cavendish Hotel

The Cavendish Hotel is a large villa, built around the 1860s and now operating as a hotel. It is constructed of plastered walls with slate roofs and features stacks with rendered shafts topped with bracketed cornices. The design is in an Italianate style.

The exterior is three storeys high, with a prominent four-storey entrance tower. Deep eaves are supported by moulded brackets and feature exposed rafter ends. Most windows are 4-pane sash windows with horizontal glazing bars. The long, asymmetrical front has three windows at ground floor, along with the fenestration of a semicircular corner turret at the right end.

The entrance tower, slightly projecting and located to the right of centre, has moulded strings and a Roman Doric porch with distyle columns in antis, a triglyph frieze, and a cornice. The tower windows are round-headed sashes, single, paired, or in groups of three, with stuccoed moulded hoodmoulds springing from bosses and a keyblock feature at the apex. A three-stage, semicircular turret to the right has a low conical roof and similarly styled windows separated by pilasters with capitals.

A gabled two-storey projection to the left of centre features deep eaves, brackets, and one window at ground floor and two at first floor. The main range has two windows in a group of three to the first floor. Second-floor windows, some arranged in pairs, include sill blocks and shaped moulded architraves. A secondary bay window was inserted on the ground floor to the left of the doorway.

The interior has not been inspected, but may contain features of architectural interest.