Harbourmaster Hotel (Formerly the Red Lion Hotel)

The Harbourmaster Hotel, formerly known as the Red Lion Hotel, is a classical building dating from the 19th century. It features a three-storey and attic design with a roughcast front that includes cill bands and rusticated long and short quoins. The slate roof has very wide boarded eaves, brick end stacks, and a central transverse gable with wide bracket eaves above a ‘look out’ room, which is lit by a two-pane semicircular headed sash window. Each of the three floors has 12-pane sash windows, all with deep plain reveals, lightly lugged architraves, and projecting cills.

At the center, there is a later projecting pitched slate roof porch that contains a six-panel door and an ornamental fanlight. The right side of the building is plain rendered and features a projecting chimney breast, while a converted warehouse is attached at ground floor level. The left side is also plain rendered and has two sash windows with glazing bars. The rear is made of colourwashed rubble with narrow eaves and includes two three-light sash windows with glazing bars on each floor, along with two-light sash windows for the mezzanine staircase. There are later extensions at the rear.

Inside, the building retains a geometrical circular staircase.