The Restoration Inn

The Restoration Inn is a 17th-century inn and house, with later alterations and additions dating to approximately 1820-1850 and 1880-1900, as well as the mid-to-late 20th century. The building comprises two main ranges. The left range is timber-framed and rendered with applied, artificial timbering on the first floor, and has a renewed artificial slate roof with a brick stack projecting from the front ridge and a rear brick stack. The range to the right is stucco over brick with a concealed roof and a renewed brick stack on the left side.

The main range (left) is two and a half storeys high, with two dormer windows, one gabled, both containing casement windows. The range to the right is three storeys high, with two first-floor windows. The left side of the first floor of the main range has eight-over-eight sash windows and modest false timbering, while the right side has a renewed casement window and close-studded false timbering. A high parapet partially obscures attic dormers containing casement windows. The range to the right has six-over-six sash windows on the ground and first floors; the first-floor windows are taller, all set in plain reveals with sills, and topped by a low, coped parapet. The ground floor features a late 19th-century shop front, designed in three arcaded sections, repeated on the left return. Panelled doors provide access to the entrances located to the far right and off-centre to the right. A two-story return extension to the north-east includes three eight-over-eight sash windows on the first floor and a skylight.

The 1983 list describes substantial portions of the earlier building as retaining heavy beams, studs, and posts. An extension to the north-east appears to have a lath and plaster flue leading to a later brick chimney. The inn occupies a corner site with Grosvenor Street. Along with numbers 54 and 331, the 17th-century fabric represents the best-known pre-Regency domestic survival within the boundaries of the early town.