The Bear Hotel

The Bear Hotel is a two-storey building with an attic, featuring a seven-bay front elevation made of exposed stone, with visible joins between the main section and the ends. It has a slate gabled roof and two stone chimney stacks. On the ground floor, there is a canted bay window with sash lights that have glazing bars, followed by two more sash windows with glazing bars. The entrance includes a square-headed doorway topped by a flat moulded wooden hood supported by scroll brackets, alongside another canted bay window, an additional window, and a wide square-headed carriage archway leading to the rear yard. The first floor contains six sash windows, with 16-pane sashes at the ends and 12-pane sashes in the center. There are five modern hipped dormers with casement glazing.

Inside, the main part of the front wing used to be a hall, which is now a bar, featuring a lateral fireplace on the rear wall. This area is separated by a cross-passage from a former parlour at the northwest end, which had its gable end demolished in the 18th to 19th centuries. The former parlour retains a decorated plaster ceiling. The remnants of the original ground hall fireplace include a fragment of an elaborately carved bressumer and roll-moulded jamb. There are later additions of massive chamfered and stopped ceiling beams. The adjoining southeast room, which is slightly later in date, likely features a 16th-century chamfered stone fireplace and a chamfered four-centred doorway, along with an early 18th-century moulded plaster ceiling adorned with heads of winged putti and a central oval panel depicting a dolphin. In the current reception area to the north, there is a carved stone fireplace bressumer with heraldic devices in relief, similar to the existing fragment of the lateral hall fireplace, possibly originally from the northwest end room. The building also includes a stone vaulted undercroft, two lateral chimney breasts in the northwest wall, and a former assembly room on the first floor. Additionally, there is a two-storey mid to late 19th-century wing adjoining to the northeast and a northwest rear wing that also has two storeys and an attic.