The Talbot Hotel, Including Ranges Of Stables And Barns At Rear, Mounting Block Near Main Carriage Entrance

The Talbot Hotel, together with its associated stables and barns at the rear, dates back to an earlier site established in 1552 and was rebuilt in 1626. Local tradition suggests that stone from Fotheringhay Castle was used in the rebuilding, and that a fine 16th-century staircase was also brought from there. The main building has a roughly L-shaped plan, with modern extensions at the rear and an extensive range of stables and barns extending to and along Drumming Well Lane.

The New Street frontage is two storeys and attics, built in ashlar with very steep stone slate roofs, featuring ball finials on the kneelers and apex of all gables, including three dormers on the front. The building is characterised by massive chimneys with six flues, arranged two by three, topped with an entablature. Most windows have stone mullions or mullions and transoms, with the exception of the window above the carriage archway. The main front is asymmetrical, featuring an additional window to both main floors at the southern end; a three-light window to the ground floor and a six-light mullioned and transomed window to the first floor. A band runs along the eaves and above the ground-floor openings.

Two three-storey canted bays feature five-light windows to the ground floor and ten-light mullioned and transomed windows to the first floor, with a raised lozenge below. Above these windows are massive gabled dormers with flush fronts, the full width of the bays, displaying deep up-cut and curving shoulders where they extend beyond the front face of the bay. Attic windows are three-light with heavy labels, and each has a raised lozenge above and below. A three-light window is present in the semi-basement of the north bay. A central dormer, similar in detail to those above the bays, rises flush with the main face. This dormer contains a semi-circular headed window with architrave and archivolt to the first floor, with the architrave extending down to the band above the ground floor. The ground floor contains a carriageway with a curved head connecting through to the exterior. A lower two-storey extension to the north end, designed to match the style of the main building, appears to be a new facade applied to an older, restored wing. A stone mounting block is located to the left of the centre carriage archway on the main front elevation.

The buildings in New Street form a group of listed buildings.