The Villiers Hotel

The Villiers Hotel is an inn that has been converted into a hotel. It dates from the early to mid-19th century but has older origins, with some alterations and extensions made in the 20th century. The building is finished in stucco over stone and brick, topped with a slate roof and features brick ridge and end stacks. It has a U-shaped plan and stands three stories tall with a four-window range.

The front of the hotel has a 20th-century door located to the right of the center, which is topped by an entablature hood supported by console brackets. To the far left, there is a carriageway with a pilastered surround and a thin entablature above. On the ground floor, there are tripartite windows on either side of the door, featuring 12-pane sashes of similar size, with a pilastered outer surround and a plain sill supported by brackets at either end. The first floor has similar windows above, and there is a 12-pane sash above the carriageway with a matching surround. The second floor has 16-pane sashes with moulded surrounds and plain sills, also with brackets at either end. The building has a plinth and a band at the second floor, which is interrupted by the cornices of the first-floor window surrounds, and it features deep bracketed eaves.

Inside the carriageway, the right wall is made of coursed squared limestone. To the rear right, there is a two-storey and attic wing that is pebbledashed, with dentilled brick eaves and a plain-tile roof, which includes three hipped roof dormer windows. On the left side of the carriageway, there is a two-storey wing made of red brick in Flemish bond, also with a plain-tile roof. The ground floor of this wing was formerly used as coach houses, and there are a pair of 24-pane sashes on the first floor with slightly cambered arched heads. There is also a slightly lower two-storey, one-window extension with a similar sash on the first floor.

Inside, the main range features a narrow open-well staircase with a scrolled tread end and a ramped and wreathed mahogany handrail. The building was formerly known as the Swan and Castle Hotel and, prior to that, until 1814, it was called the White Swan.