Crown Hotel, Main Street, Thornton

The Crown Hotel, located on Main Street in Thornton, dates from the later part of the 19th century and has undergone some alterations. This two-storey, six-bay hotel is part of an irregular terrace and features Baronial architectural details. The building is constructed from dressed, squared, and snecked rubble, as well as random rubble and harl, with droved and polished dressings. It includes a base course and a dividing course, along with a keystoned, roll-moulded doorcase, round-headed and segmental arched openings, chamfered cills, stone mullions, and stop-chamfered arrises.

The entrance elevation features a prominent gabled bay that flanks the entrance, which has a boarded doorcase and a modern timber canopy. Above the entrance is a window on the first floor. The gabled bays have tripartite, segmental arched windows and round-headed windows on their returns, both on the ground and first floors, with moulded tablets in the gableheads. To the left, there is another door in the penultimate bay, which has a round-headed, roll-moulded, and banded doorcase with a monogrammed keystone (EHB), and a bipartite window above it. The outer left bay features a tripartite window at ground level and a bipartite window above. The outer right has a pend opening that has been blocked with a modern door, with an additional window on the first floor.

The first-floor windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing, while the ground floor windows are blocked but show evidence of original designs. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the building has coped ashlar stacks with some chimney cans, plain bargeboarding, overhanging eaves, and decorative cast iron finials.