New County Hotel

The New County Hotel is a hotel that was rebuilt around 1840 as the Ram Hotel, located on the site of the former Ram Inn. The building has been completely remodeled internally in the 20th century. It features a brick exterior with stucco and stone details, topped by a slate mansard roof with dormers.

The hotel is a large structure with three storeys, an attic, and a cellar. The front facade consists of five bays, with a projecting band at the first-floor level and a string course at the sill level of the second-floor windows. The building is crowned by an entablature that is stopped at either end by large moulded and carved brackets, and there is a parapet with moulded capping that is heightened in the form of a shallow gable above the central bay.

On the ground floor, there are 20th-century two-light windows in each bay, with a doorway to the front bar replacing the left-hand light of the central window, and a doorway to the lobby in the right-hand bay. The first floor is treated as a piano nobile, featuring a pair of French doors with a two-light fanlight in each bay, recessed in openings framed by plain pilasters and an entablature with a moulded frieze and cornice supported by consoles, along with a very shallow pediment with a carved tympanum above. The projecting sill has a 20th-century guard railing that replaces the original wrought iron. On the second floor, there are plain sashes in slightly recessed, two-light openings with a central mullion. The attic contains five dormers, each with a cornice supported on shaped end brackets, a shallow pedimental gable, and a two-light casement.

The interior features 20th-century linings and details throughout, with a brick-walled and vaulted cellar that likely dates back to around 1840.