Hand Hotel

The Hand Hotel is a late Georgian building with Victorian alterations, featuring three and four storeys. Its exterior is finished in painted roughcast with a plinth, a slate roof, and red brick chimney stacks. The right-hand, three-storey section includes the main entrance and has a five-bay front with small pane casement windows on the second floor. There are splayed bays on the left and oriel windows in the centre and right, all of which are sash glazed. The central porch has square, tapered piers adorned with egg and dart ornamentation, leading to a half-glazed door accessed by steps. To the right, there is a sash window with a bracket cill and architrave, followed by a broad 20th-century splayed bay beneath a wide bracketed cornice.

On the left, there is a four-storey range with two windows on the left and one on the right. The cill band on the second floor indicates the height of a former early 19th-century range that featured Gothick windows. This section may have been raised twice, as suggested by the rainwater heads at the second-floor level.

Further left, a single bay set back is a later 19th-century addition. It primarily features horned four-pane sash windows with simple architraves and bracket cills. There is a second-floor oriel window on the left that once had a balcony over a tripartite window. This bay is situated within the churchyard, which is overlooked by the three-window end elevation.

Cross ranges are set back towards the courtyard with splayed sides. There are three-storey bow windows at the corner between the five-bay east range and the north end, which contains a modern rear porch. The west side is mainly two-storey and constructed of brick, featuring sash windows above semicircular arched recesses that were once part of the coach house but are now infilled. The black and white range steps down with whitewashed rubble elevations facing Chapel Street, topped with a stone gable parapet and kneeler. Beyond this, there are four, one, two, and three bays with sash windows, including small-pane windows near the corner with Church Street.

Inside, the hotel retains deep panelled ceilings with cornices and bosses, along with some Regency archways featuring console brackets. The Dining Room includes a lugged chimneypiece, while the main staircase has carved tread ends and iron uprights in the rear stairs.