Castle Hotel

The Castle Hotel is a house, built around 1900, and now operating as a hotel. It is constructed from snecked rubble stone with ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs with tall rubble stacks partially hidden by embattled parapets. The building was designed to resemble a Gothic folly in the style of a castellated mansion. The plan is T-shaped, with the wider base facing the sea and built into a bank, and a rear range raised above.

The asymmetrical sea-facing facade has two storeys. The left side features a large, canted transomed window topped with a castellated parapet, incorporating two cinquefoil ogee arches above a four-centred arched bay window with transoms and moulded finials to each corner. This window is flanked by a small mock corner turret to the left, above a short diagonal buttress, and a taller polygonal turret with a loop, also buttressed, to the right, both with crenellated parapets. To the right of the entrance is a two-cinquefoil headed window above a doorway with large sidelights. A low, false square turret with loops on each face is situated at the right-hand corner. This right side is further defined by a single-storey, colonnaded arcade with slender columns featuring cushion-style capitals supporting four-centred arches; four bays run along the front, with a canted corner bay returning around to the right side, supporting two further arches that abut a three-light bay window, the whole topped with a crenellated parapet terminating in a small gable at the centre. A double-gabled projection extends from the right side of the rear range, featuring canted bay windows on each floor. The main entrance is at the rear, featuring a four-centred arched doorway to the front side of the projecting rear range and a double-leafed, half-glazed door. A polygonal bay window is located on the left side of the front range.

Original features are retained in the principal rooms, including interlaced polygonal ribbing to the wooden ceiling of the original lounge, supported by two decorative wall posts and moulded beams, with a similar single beam in the original dining room, now a bar. The entrance hall also has two similar beams, a stone fireplace hood with corbel masks, and a staircase with a moulded handrail, turned balusters, and square newels featuring blind panels on each face, with a three-light four-centred arched screen over the lower flight. Smaller plasterwork cornices with scrolling foliage and rosettes are also present.