Combe House Hotel

Combe House Hotel is a building that originally served as a tannery and dwelling, dating from the 16th to 17th centuries, with an enlargement in the early 19th century. The structure features colourwashed random rubble on the left side and rendered walls on the right, topped with a steeply pitched slate roof on the left and a double span shallow pitch slate roof on the right, which has a pantiled rear span. Brick stacks are located on both the left and right sides of the left block and at the left gabled end of the right block.

The building has a modified three-cell plan with a cross passage and a double pile on the right. It stands one and a half to two and a half storeys high and has five bays on the left and three on the right. The right block includes three segmental-headed two-light dormers, while the rest of the windows are 12-pane sash windows. The central entrance features an open pediment with a pilaster doorcase, dentil moulding, and a half-glazed door. The left side has five 12-pane sash windows, with the fourth window being larger and likely originally serving as a loft entrance with a hoist. Ground floor 12-pane sash windows flank the entrance, and there are 20th-century French windows to the left, a 20th-century two-light window beyond, and a small glazed opening. A 20th-century glazed door leads to a porch, which has a wrought iron balcony supported by wooden columns and a low rendered wall.

The right return has raking buttresses, while the left return adjoins the tannery outbuildings. Inside, the hotel features chamfered beams with steps and run-out stops, a moulded doorway with a four-centred arch head in the left room, and a collar and principal roof. An extensive tannery operated at this location in 1840, but by 1910, it had transitioned into a private hotel.