The Castle Inn

The Castle Inn is a hotel dating from the early 19th century. It is built of painted stucco with a slate hipped roof, originally featuring end chimneys which have since been removed. Paired brackets adorn the eaves. The main facade is three storeys high and three bays wide, featuring hornless 12-pane sash windows with painted stone sills. The ground floor has plate glass sashes with sidelights, and a central early 19th century six-panel door with bordered panels and a rectangular overlight incorporating applied fan tracery. The reveals are panelled, with thin pilaster responds, all original, although the timber porch was rebuilt in the late 20th century.

The north side, facing the main road, is also three storeys high but shares the same roofline, again with paired brackets to the eaves, and includes a small west-end chimney. The windows are at varying heights on the left side compared to the centre and right. The left side has a blank window to the top floor, a narrow 12-pane casement set slightly under the eaves, and a plate glass sash to the ground floor. The centre has a small-paned casement to the second floor, which is lower than the windows to the left, above a flat-roofed two-storey projection with a canted three-sided front. This projection has broad angle raised strips, a thin raised plinth, and a top band. A hornless 16-pane sash is set into an architrave on the first floor. The ground floor of the projection has a remarkable surviving double-bowed shopfront featuring two 20-pane curved windows and a former doorway with a traceried overlight, the three bays divided by thin moulded pilasters with square rosettes at the tops. A panelled soffit covers the overlight. A fascia with raised blocks over the pilasters and a flat shelf cornice completes the shopfront detailing. The original door has been replaced by two casements with marginal glazing bars. Stuccoed walls are situated under the bow shopfront and central window, with a low plinth. The right side of the building is three storeys and two bays wide. It has a small-paned cross-window on the top floor and a blank window below, first-floor hornless 12-pane sashes, and a 20th-century window on the ground floor in the opening of a former sash.

The rear west side has two gables, the right one asymmetrical. A single-storey wing has been added to the right. The south end, constructed of rubble stone, has a 20th-century window under the eaves centrally to the right, a 6-pane window to the ground floor centre, and one window on each floor to the right; all are hornless sashes with cambered heads featuring stone voussoirs. A stone, flat-roofed porch is located in the angle of a projecting gabled wing with one window on each floor, and stone sills.

The interior has not been inspected.