hotel

Attached four-bay two-storey hotel, c.1850, with four-bay single-storey return with half-attic to north-west. Renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to ground floor, and render façade enrichments added. Renovated and refenestrated, c.2000, to accommodate part use as offices to ground floor with accommodation over. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks (red brick Running bond chimney stack to return), square rooflights, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.2000, on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered quoins. Square-headed window openings with moulded rendered sills, c.1890, and hood mouldings over. Replacement timber casement windows, c.2000. Square-headed door opening with moulded rendered surround, replacement timber panelled door, c.2000, having overlight. Rendered shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor with fluted Ionic pilasters on consoles, replacement timber casement windows, c.2000, on panelled stall risers having moulded sills, replacement timber panelled door, c.2000, with sidelights, overlight, and rendered fascia over having dentilated moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

A substantial building of balanced proportions, which retains most of its original form and massing. The building is of particular significance for its original intended purpose as a hotel, reflecting an aspect of the early commercialisation of Portlaw. Despite renovations to accommodate its present uses, the building retains important original features and materials, including an attractive, robust shopfront of artistic design distinction, together with rendered detailing to the openings, all of which attest to high quality local craftsmanship. The building remains occupies a prominent site in the centre of Portlaw, and remains an attractive component of the streetscape of The Square.