Castlebank Hotel

The Castlebank Hotel is a Georgian-style house with castellated detailing, dating from the 18th century. It is a three-bay, double-pile building of two storeys with an attic and basement. The exterior is of snecked rock-faced stone with lighter freestone dressings and quoins. The roof is slate, behind crow-stepped gables, with end stacks to each pile featuring paired stone shafts. The building’s symmetrical front has each window bay advanced; the central bay is slightly forward, and the outer bays project further, all under gables with finials. The entrance has a half-glazed panel door, likely inserted into an older door frame. Windows on the front are 12-pane hornless sashes on the ground and first floors, each under a lintel with a tripartite keystone. A freestone lozenge tablet sits above the central first-floor window. The attic has replacement small-pane windows to the left and right, and a central 6-pane sash window.

The gable ends and rear of the main house are of rubble stone. The two-window right gable end has windows grouped centrally, featuring 12-pane hornless sashes. The left-hand side has an original, lower 2-pane sash replacing a previous lower sash, with a small-pane attic window to the left of centre. A replaced basement window sits to the right, within an original opening in a lightwell and under a tripartite lintel.

The rear of the house has a two-storey hipped central projection with pebble-dashed walls and a stack. This projection is flanked by original 12-pane hornless sash windows on the first floor, above added single-storey projections. The attic of the projection has 4-pane windows within gabled half-dormers to the left and right.

A 20th-century one-storey, three-window wing, built in materials matching the main house, is set back to the left of the front. It features tall, 12-pane horned sash windows above four small basement windows. A later 20th-century wing has been added to the rear.

Slate steps lead up to the right and left of the entrance, with fretwork-style cast-iron railings featuring a wreathed handrail and moulded newels. A cambered lintel covers a replacement basement window between the entrance steps. Replacement small-pane windows are found in lightwells to the left and right of the entrance, incorporating a keyed lintel on the left-hand side.

The house is centrally planned with double depth. The hall contains a full-height open-well staircase with turned balusters, a wreathed handrail, and scrolled tread ends. Doorways to the main rooms have panelled reveals. The right-hand front room retains an original slate fireplace, and the left-hand room has original plasterwork to the ceiling, including a central rose and moulded cornice.