Crown Hotel

The Crown Hotel is a large inn, dating primarily from the 18th century with origins in the 17th century. It is built of rendered brick and rubble, with a timber-frame structure visible beneath. The building has medium-steep slate roofs and a central chimney. The facade is symmetrical, with a three-and-a-half-storey main section and a single bay projecting at a right angle to the left. The ground floor features stucco rustication, and all windows have moulded stucco surrounds, with consoles supporting moulded labels, along with raised stucco quoins. A central entrance has an open wooden porch supported by simple Tuscan columns, leading to a deeply-recessed six-panel door with panelled reveals. Large, plain Victorian sash windows flank the entrance on the ground floor, while three plain casement windows with marginal glazing are above. The second floor has early 19th century unhorned 15-pane sashes, interspersed with blind framed rectangular panels. The projecting bay to the left has tripartite windows with the same glazing pattern on the first two floors, and a 15-pane sash on the second floor. Dormers are present on the roof, aligned with the bays, and their windows have plain-glazed lower sections and small-pane upper sections. The gable end of the projecting bay, which faces into the square, has plain bargeboards and a finial believed to relate to a formerly adjoining lower building.

The public bar contains a lateral beam showing evidence of mortising for a former post-and-panel partition. A large central brick chimney breast features a later fireplace bressummer, now an alcove. A room behind the public bar has ogee stopped-chamfered ceiling beams, characteristic of the mid-17th century. A hallway to the left of the bar leads to a straight-flight staircase to the first floor, created in the 19th century from mid-17th century elements that originally formed a well stair. The staircase features a square newel with an S-carved relief to the front, along with flat, shaped and pierced balusters and geometric finials. The stair continues to the top floor, incorporating some reused elements alongside 19th century replicas of the original design. A 19th century addition on the rear of the first floor provides a function room with three bays, featuring braced king post trusses.