Former Croft Hotel

The former Croft Hotel, dated 1830 as indicated on a rainwater head, is now residential flats. It is a stucco-faced building with boarded eaves featuring ornamented iron brackets with gargoyles. It has small-paned sash windows and clustered diagonal chimneys, with a castellated roofline. A Gothic porch features three open pointed arches, buttresses, and a castellated gable. The garden front has an elaborate iron verandah between deep, three-sided bay windows of three storeys, and Gothic fall pipes resembling octagonal buttresses. A Tudor arch with a castellated top on the rear leads to former kitchens and stables.

The interior is in the Greek Revival style, with Spanish mahogany door and window architraves, painted wooden Greek columns, cornices, an iron balustraded staircase with a mahogany handrail, and an oval stained-glass lantern on columns. Upstairs, a white marble fireplace includes carvings of charioteers. The staircase tower incorporates a long, round-headed window.

The building is a good example of a mixed Greek and Gothic architectural style from the 1830s.

The hotel was formerly part of a group including Croft Lodge, Nos 1 to 5 (consec) (Croft Courtyard), a cobbled courtyard with a mounting block and pump, a gatehouse, Howsley Cottage, Wayside, and Rock Cottage.