Crown Hotel

The Crown Hotel is a hotel that was originally two houses, built around 1800. It was altered to its current form by Harry Redfern for the Carlisle & District State Management Scheme around 1930. The building is cement rendered, likely covering sandstone walls, and features moulded stone dressings and a slate roof. It stands three stories tall and has seven bays. There are raised quoin stones and a moulded cornice at the original roof line between the first and second floor windows, with an additional moulded cornice at the 1930 roof level. The entrance has a heavy dentilled entablature supported by two Roman Ionic columns. The windows are sash style with moulded surrounds, and there are central tripartite windows. Although there have been 20th-century alterations, the character of the earlier building has been retained. The Crown Hotel first became an inn around 1838 with the arrival of the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway and the construction of the nearby Wetheral Station. It was taken over by the Central Control Board in 1916 and was de-nationalised in 1973, becoming a private hotel.