Raleigh Court Raleigh Court And The Raleigh Public House The Raleigh Public House

Raleigh Court, together with The Raleigh Public House, is a hotel, now comprising a public house and flats, built in 1888-1889 to the designs of EH Back, with Row and Watts as builders. The building is constructed of painted Flemish-bond red brick with Bathstone ashlar dressings and a timber-framed show front over a ground-floor level of red brick. It features a red brick chimneyshaft in a star shape, and a steeply-pitched gabled slate roof with pierced crested ridge tiles.

The building is three storeys high with attics and has a three-bay front. The striking show front is designed in an Elizabethan style, with jettied floors, projecting bays, and balustraded balconies. Stone doorways are positioned at each end; the doorway to the bar has a mullioned overlight and a 20th-century studded plank door, while the doorway to the flats has a plain overlight and an original door with a pattern of faceted panels, flanked by transomed sidelights. The windows between these doorways originally had stone mullions, which have been removed below transom level. Most of the windows have been replaced with late 20th-century aluminium frames, but some first-floor top lights retain original coloured leaded glass patterns. The framing creates narrow panels that were probably originally slate-hung, a feature that remains on the left side wall. Criss-cross braces are present under the second- and attic-floor windows. The attic floor is jettied with shaped joist ends projecting through moulded cornices, and corner brackets are surmounted by carved gargoyles. The gables feature bargeboards with zig-zag decoration and ornamental wrought-iron finials featuring flowers.

The left side wall is constructed of brick and contains single-light windows either side of a projecting stack, upon which is a date plaque inscribed "The first building erected on New Embankment 1888-9; EH Back, architect; Row and Watts, builders." A projecting bay window rises from first-floor level to a gable over the attic window on this side, and has ornamental slate-hanging. The interior of the building was not inspected. The building is included for group value.