The Bolton Hotel

The Bolton Hotel is a hotel located in Lower Brixham, dating from the early to mid 19th century. The building features solid rendered walls and a hipped slated roof, with two painted brick chimneys on the rear wall. It stands three storeys tall, with a three-window front facing New Road and a two-window return to Bolton Street, which includes one window on the rounded corner.

The main entrance is situated at the left-hand end of the New Road front, featuring a Doric porch with vases at each end of the blocking-course, decorated with wreaths. The entrance has panelled reveals and a fanlight with glazing bars arranged in a zig-zag pattern. To the right of the Bolton Street front, there is a late 19th-century half-glazed door with three raised and fielded panels at the bottom and a glazed upper panel inscribed with "THE BOLTON HOTEL" in frosted glass.

Most windows are small-paned sashes with margin-panes: the ground and second storeys have 6 over 6 panes, while the third storey has 3 over 6 panes, except for the rounded corner windows which are 4 panes wide. The ground storey of the Bolton Street front features a single wide window with two pairs of plain sashes. Both this window and the ground-storey window on the corner are adorned with 19th-century iron guard-rails decorated with quatrefoils and scrolls. The right-hand third-storey window on Bolton Street is blind. There is a moulded cornice above the ground storey on both fronts, and the second-storey windows have cornices on consoles, topped with a deep plain eaves-cornice.

The interior has been partly inspected on the ground and first floors and appears to have undergone significant alterations, although some moulded cornices remain on the ground floor. There is a wooden dogleg staircase with column newels and boxed-in balusters. The Bolton Street entrance features an inner porch with a half-glazed partition similar to the entrance door, including the hotel name in frosted glass and an egg-and-dart cornice. The Brixham Tithe Map and Apportionment from 1838 provides historical context for the building.