The Parsonage Country House Hotel

The Parsonage Country House Hotel, originally a vicarage, dates back to 1828, as indicated on the fall pipes and rear stack. It underwent probable structural alterations and reroofing by F.C. Penrose around 1852. The building is designed in a Jacobethan style, constructed from pinkish-red and gault brick with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof.

This two-storey structure features attics in the gables and has six bays, with a single-storey, single bay to the right. The third (entrance) bay, along with the fifth and sixth bays, projects slightly and is gabled with attics; the second and fourth bays are also gabled. The plinth has moulded ashlar coping, and there are ashlar quoins at the ground floor of the entrance bay. Access is via three steps leading to a five-long-panelled door with Gothic tracery set within a moulded Tudor-arched surround. The windows are mainly single light, with two, three, and four-light mullion windows in quoined ashlar surrounds. The ground floor windows are primarily under hoodmoulds, with some beneath gauged brick Tudor relieving arches. Decorative ashlar panels are found beneath some first-floor windows, and there is an oriel window above the entrance. A decorative ashlar band runs along the first floor, and the gables feature weatherboard detailing. The ridge and rear stacks, arranged in groups of three, four, and six, are diagonal and columnar with crenellated caps. The garden facade includes two single-storey canted bays with 6-light mullion and transom windows.

Inside, the entrance hall has a two-bay, double-chamfered, Tudor-arched arcade and a similar arch leading to the service end. There is a wrought-iron Jacobethan open-well staircase and panelled ceilings. The sitting room features two Tudor-arched recesses, while the dining room has decorative swags with fruit on the frieze. Most windows have shutters, and the doors are mainly four and six-long-fielded-panel types set within panelled architraves.

Plans and drawings dated 1852 in the house indicate that F.C. Penrose was commissioned for structural alterations, and further plans from 1887 show the production of outbuildings.