The Bear Hotel

The Bear Hotel is a 19th-century building featuring a stucco front with deep cill bands and a plinth, topped by a slate roof. It has boxed eaves with a moulded cornice and two roughcast end chimney stacks. The front has recessed sash windows with small-pane glazing, including one tripartite window on the first floor. The first-floor windows have moulded architraves, with two featuring console bracketed hoods, and the right-hand window includes an apron.

On the ground floor, there are two tripartite sashes with hoods flanking an advanced porch that has a flat roof and iron window-box holders beneath a 19th-century lamp hung from an ornamental bracket on the first floor. The porch is supported by ornamental tapered columns at the front and plain pilasters at the back, leading to half-glazed double doors. To the right, there is a segmental arched gated former coach entrance, and a two-storey bay set forward adjoins to the right, featuring a continuous cill band above double boarded garage doors. The return bay on the right has a shaped gable, is rendered, and includes a shop front.

The right side of the building has two windows with early 19th-century multipaned casement windows flanking an advanced chimney breast. The irregular rear elevation is roughcast and features three gabled roofs (one steep) and one hipped roof cross ranges, along with a narrow chimney stack and some sash windows with glazing bars.

Inside, the layout follows the central fireplace stairs type. The travellers' room was formerly on the right, with stables to the left and the house at the rear where the kitchens are located today. The interior retains feather stop-chamfered beams, panelled doors, window splays, and stone flagged floors. The dining room has been converted from a former scullery, and there is a pointed barrel vaulted brick cellar that may date back to the 18th century.