The Castle Hotel

The Castle Hotel comprises an 18th-century inn and a house adjoining to the north-west, with earlier origins dating from the 16th to 18th centuries. The inn range was refronted around 1820, incorporating two earlier buildings. The adjoining house is likely of 16th or 17th-century origin.

The inn range is built of rubble stone, formerly roughcast, and has a stone-tiled roof. It features 16-pane sash windows set in chamfered flush surrounds. The facade is generally uniform, created by alterations around 1820 which linked earlier ranges with a curved section. From the northwest, the building consists of a two-window section with a central door and a north end stack, representing a recasing of a 16th or early 17th-century range. This section retains heavy internal timbers and a large timber lintel over the north end fireplace. A curved section from around 1800 follows, along with a two-window range; one upper opening is blank and displays a painted sign. The northeastern range likely has 17th-century origins. The first bay has a small dormer gable over the door, a 16-pane sash in an unmoulded surround, and a south end stack. A straight joint marks the transition to a possible 18th-century stable range, which has been altered. This section features a long three-light window with a cyma-moulded head, a moulded flush doorcase, and 20th-century casements over a 20th-century door and window. A moulded doorcase leads to a two-sectioned cellar; one section is ashlar vaulted, the other is rubble stone vaulted.

The house range is attached to the northwest end and is built of rubble stone with a timber-framed upper floor. It has a south end stack shared with the adjoining range. It is two storeys and an attic in height and has two hipped dormers. The first floor includes two small 12-pane sashes, a three-light ovolo-moulded mullion window with a hoodmould, a door, a shallow bay window, and a 20th-century mullion window with a hoodmould. The interior of this range has been restored and includes a large timber lintel fireplace to the south wall, a timber-frame party wall to the south, and stopped spine beams.

An early to mid-19th-century ashlar screen wall, likely built to block views from the Manor House drive, adjoins the northwest of the building. It is embattled with a doorway, a coped gable with an opening, and carved shields displaying the Scrope, Tibetot, and Badlesmere coats of arms.