White Hall Hotel

The White Hall Hotel is an inn dating from the 17th century through the 19th century. The original section runs north-south at a right angle to the street, with an 18th-century wing on the west side, a stair wing on the rear east side, and an outbuilding on the west side behind and parallel to the 18th-century wing. It is two storeys high with steep slate roofs close to the eaves.

The long north-south spine range has a whitewashed square rendered chimney where it joins the first west wing and a square stone stack further back, along with a shorter end stack at the gable end facing No. 2 Castle Street. A west-end stack is present on the west wing.

The front of the building, facing the street and overlooking a cobbled courtyard, forms an L-shape. Decorative patterns of four-slate diamonds adorn each front roof elevation. The exterior is lined with painted stucco. The main range faces west, and the west wing faces north, both featuring 19th-century horned four-pane sashes with painted sills. Raised plinths are also present. The main range has three bays: a low, wide front door on the left, and sashes to the middle and right-hand bays on both floors. The ground floor, right-hand bay has a pair of smaller sashes. The west wing has a regular three-bay front with a central board door. A chamfered ground floor corner exists at the junction with Castle Street. The windowless right-end wall has curved ground floor angles, with the lower part constructed of whitewashed old brick, likely from the 18th century, showing marks of blocked windows. Rubble stone makes up the gable. The rear, backing onto a small three-sided courtyard, also has brick below the rubble stone with one sash window to the ground floor right.

At a right angle to the main range is a continuation of the main range, constructed of whitewashed rubble. It has one window above a broad cambered-headed cart entry, with stone voussoirs now infilled with a window and door. A small inserted window is to the left and, in the angle to the right, are a flight of stone steps leading to a loft door. The whitewashed rubble outbuilding wing, set at a right angle, has two altered openings facing north into the courtyard, a loft opening in the gable end, and two inserted double coach-house doors on the south side, with brick jambs and a pier between.

The rear of the main range is whitewashed rubble and includes a crosswing to the right, left of the first ridge stack and parallel to the rear of Alma House, likely a stair tower. It has a door to the ground floor right, a square window to the first floor, and a casement pair to the attic. There is a window on each floor to the south side. The remainder of the main range has lower eaves, with a square window over a lean-to on the right, a window over a door, and a window under a long oak lintel. A narrow first-floor light sits just right of the second ridge stack. A door is situated in the final section.

A ground floor bar at the north end of the main range features five 17th-century ovolo-moulded beams with a bead mould above the ovolo, one beam at each end and three to the ceiling. A small fireplace is located at the upper end, with an oak lintel and a remnant of Tudor-arched moulding. A large oak beam is present at the lower end's fireplace, set on inserted brick jambs. A room at a right angle has plain, rough beams, likely dating to the 18th century. The interior requires further investigation. The outbuilding in the southwest has three pegged 18th-century tie-beam-and-collar trusses.