Cain Valley Hotel

Painted local brick front (rendered on ground floor) of seven bays, three storeys; painted quoins; slate roof with three rectangular brick chimneys set forward if ridge. Upper storey has almost square small-pane windows (old photos show four of these as ''tax-painted'' dummies). First floor has central camber-headed window (blocked/dummy) with, to each side, three twelve pane sashes with brick lintels. On ground floor, central entrance doorway set behind flat-roofed Tuscan porch. To each side, two broad camber-headed windows each with pair of twelve pane sashes. To rear, lower eaves line; to R, late C19 range in red brick. Elevation facing Bridge Street has, to L, gable end with slightly overhanging upper storeys on first floor, two-light and three-light small pane casement window. On ground floor central doorway with paired sash windows to R. To R of gable, long outhouse range in rubble (painted), slate roofs. First section has two storeys with two small pane sashes on first floor. On ground floor to L, broad camber-headed window with pair of twelve pane sashes; to R, small camber-headed window. To R, section with steeper roof pitch and cross gable, single window to first floor; three small camber-headed windows to ground floor.

Entrance hall has exposed timber-framed wall (front post jowled), and remains of jettied front (exposed beams etc in lounge bar). To rear, fine stair of C17 rises full height of building; tapering newel posts with carved bosses and pendants, fretted splat balusters and moulded handrail. Outbuildings facing Bridge Street enclose parts of timber-framed building later encased in stone; said to have old roof trusses and traces of wind-braces.