Duke Of Edinburgh Hotel

The Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, now a public house, was built around 1875. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar sandstone dressings, topped with a graduated slate roof. The building is three storeys high with an attic, situated on a corner site with eight bays facing Abbey Road, a corner oriel window, and a shorter return frontage to Rawlinson Street. It is designed in a Gothic Revival style.

The hotel has a chamfered plinth and a moulded string course below the ground-floor sill band. Two quoined doorways on Abbey Road feature colonnettes, Gothic-panelled doors, overlights with intersecting glazing bars, and moulded arches with hoodmoulds. The windows are arranged in an irregular rhythm and feature colonnette mullions, sash windows under pointed arches, and linked hoodmoulds. An angled corner bay has single-light windows flanking a granite shaft supporting the oriel.

A first-floor balcony runs the width of the Abbey Road frontage, supported by ornate brackets and featuring a cast-iron balustrade with foliate panels, posts with finials, and the hotel's name in bold lettering. The windows on this floor are in a 1:2:1:2:2:1:2:1 rhythm, with sashes in recessed ashlar surrounds under brick pointed arches and continuous hoodmoulds, incorporating blue-brick relieving arches. The two-light windows in this rhythm have colonnette mullions, with quatrefoils in ashlar panels above.

The second floor has sill and lintel bands linking recessed, square-headed sashes, also in the same rhythm, with pilaster mullions. The corner oriel has corbelling with ball-flowers supporting a semi-octagon with three trefoil-headed sashes beneath linked triangular hoodmoulds. The second-floor sashes have lintels with roundels under trefoils; the carved cornice is now topped by a brick parapet. The main eaves incorporate compound brick corbelling. The hipped roof has seven dormers to Abbey Road, featuring casements under oversailing verges and arch braces. Plain brick stacks are visible on the ridge and left return slope.

The left return has a pointed doorway flanked by a three-light and a two-light window, with all windows and two roof dormers matching the front. Two unequal, gabled additions are set lower to the left.

The interior stair hall is half-panelled in mahogany. An impressive staircase rises through three floors in an open well, beneath a coved ceiling with a lantern. The staircase features turned balusters linked by pierced panels under a moulded handrail and bold newel posts.