Springfield House Hotel

Springfield House Hotel is a detached house that has been converted into a hotel. It was built in 1838 and features ashlar and coursed rubble limestone with ashlar chimneys and a Welsh slate roof. The building is two stories tall, with a smaller two-story rear section.

The front of the hotel has a three-window arrangement. The central upper floor has a tripartite sash window, with the outer lights featuring marginal glazing bars. The outer upper floor windows are 12-pane sashes. The ground floor has later 19th-century glazed doors, and all windows are adorned with moulded architraves and louvred shutters. The central entrance has a round arched doorway flanked by round arched windows, all with moulded architraves and imposts. The entrance features a six-panel reeded door with a fanlight above. A tetrastyle Ionic porch with a flat roof enhances the façade.

There is a plain band at the upper floor level that extends over a slight central projection, with plain corner pilasters and a stucco eaves cornice. The roof is low and hipped, with projecting eaves. The sides of the building have a two-window arrangement similar to the front, with the south side constructed in coursed rubble. The lower rear range includes 12 and 16-pane sash windows.

A through passage at the south end has a doorway with a segmental arched head and jambs that were adapted from a mid-17th-century doorway, featuring lozenges in the spandrels, suggesting that an earlier building existed on the site. The six-panel door and architraves are early 19th-century.

Inside, there is a fine hall with a central round archway supported by paired detached Ionic columns. Beyond this is a curved staircase with decorative balusters and a fine plaster ceiling, along with a high-level round arched stair sash window that also has marginal glazing bars. The house was recorded as 'newly erected' in 1838 for Handy and Jesse Davis, who were clothiers.