The Cliffe-Norton Hotel

The Cliffe-Norton Hotel comprises four terraced houses, now converted to hotel use.

No 10, on the left, is the most elaborate. It has a white painted stone front of three storeys with basement and attic, arranged in three bays. The roof is slate with a mansard profile carrying three round-headed dormers and stone end stacks with elaborate capping. Heavy projecting eaves cornice with paired brackets at each end frames the downpipe. The dormers are casements with plate glass fans. Historically, all windows featured two-colour contrasting voussoirs and possibly contrasting colour jambs, according to old photographs.

The top floor has three square four-pane sash windows with moulded stone sill band broken forward on brackets beneath them, and iron window guards. The first floor displays four large arched plate-glass sash windows—three to the left grouped closely together—with chamfered jambs and heads and stone voussoirs rising to pointed brattished thin hoodmoulds. A continuous balcony on eight large brackets with iron rail between stone angle piers runs across this floor. The ground floor has two four-pane sash windows with cambered heads, chamfered surrounds and stone voussoirs, plus a large doorway to the right (not aligned with the windows above) with similar voussoirs under a pointed brattished hoodmould; this now has a 20th-century door and overlight. A narrow service door with square head stands at the extreme right. Two basement windows align with the ground floor windows and sit in slightly raised chamfered surrounds with stone voussoirs.

Nos 11 and 12 are each of painted stucco, four storeys and basement, two bays, with an even parapet.

No 11 is notably narrower, with a cornice. Upper floor windows are nine-pane sashes; the second floor has twelve-pane sashes. The first floor features a narrow four-sided canted window to the left, now with 20th-century glazing and a slate hung apron, and to the right a 20th-century three-light window with top-lights. The ground floor has a 20th-century window to the left and a 20th-century wide doorway to the right with recessed doors. A 1936 photograph shows a thin moulding below the cornice delineating a frieze and a rusticated ground floor with circa 1930 small-paned glazing to two first floor windows and the left ground floor window. The broad doorway originally had a cornice on consoles above, positioned just under the first floor window sill.

No 12 has a rendered right end stack and a bolder cornice at the same height with dentils. The upper windows are set higher in the walls, with original openings across the three upper floors: sash windows of four-pane, six-pane and eight-pane sizes. A balcony on console brackets with iron rail adorns the first floor. The ground floor has one blocked window at the extreme left and a 20th-century two-pane window with four top-lights. A 1936 photograph documents moulded surrounds to the upper windows, a heavy second floor sill band, cornices to first floor windows, and a rusticated ground floor with small metal-paned windows to left and right, both with keyblocks over.

No 13 is considerably lower, of painted stucco but still four storeys, two bays, with a thin cornice and parapet. It has angle quoins and a 20th-century continuous attic (replacing a single cambered-headed dormer). Four-pane sashes occupy the upper two floors in moulded surrounds. The first floor features a central canted oriel with moulded timber cornice. The ground floor has a short tripartite sash to the left and a pair of recessed doors to the right, both now with 20th-century doors and overlights; the right door stands against the side wall of No 14. The upper floor of No 13 on the right is built over the left end wall of No 14.