St Catherine Hotel, St Catherines

St Catherine Hotel, located in St Catherines, is a mid-18th century coaching inn that has undergone later alterations. It is a 2-storey building with an attic and a rectangular plan, featuring a 3-bay layout. The hotel has a late 20th century ground floor extension on the entire northwest (principal) elevation, along with a long, low wing. Adjoining the hotel to the southwest is a long, rectangular former stable block that incorporates a 3-bay single storey cottage.

The building is rendered, with some painted stone surrounds around the windows. The inn has overhanging eaves with exposed rafters and narrow plain bargeboards on the gable ends. Both the inn and the cottage feature gabled dormers with bargeboards.

On the northwest elevation, the inn has a centrally located door that is obscured by the glazed extension at ground floor level. There are three evenly spaced windows on the first floor, with dormers arranged above. The cottage has an advanced gabled single storey porch with a central door, and flanking ground floor windows that are set back, with dormers above. The former stable block has a window to the right of the cottage, along with a modern brick and glazed porch that includes a door on the right return.

The southwest elevation features an advanced plain gable of the former stable block, with the plain gable of the inn set back above it. The southeast (rear) elevation includes a substantial modern flat-roofed extension to the ground floor of both the inn and the cottage, with various openings. The remaining part of the former stable block has a plain wall. There is a central first floor stair window in the inn, flanked by two windows, with the window to the right being smaller than the one on the left. Additionally, there are two gabled dormer windows and a central rooflight. A curved retaining wall is set behind the inn and stable block, with the ground rising to the southeast.

On the northeast elevation, there is a modern extension at ground floor level, with the plain gable of the inn above it. A date stone reading '1756' is set under the right eave of the inn. The building features modern timber doors and predominantly 4-pane timber sash and case windows with horns, while the modern extensions to the inn, cottage, and former stable block have plate glass windows. The inn has a pitched grey slate roof, with rendered, coped gable apex stacks that have raggles and circular clay cans. The stable block, which incorporates the cottage, also has a pitched grey slate roof.