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Terraced five-bay three-storey former house, c.1790, possibly originally two-storey retaining early fenestration. Now in use as hotel. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Red brick chimney stack (shared to south-west). Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Painted. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. 1/1 timber sash windows. Timber panelled door. Sidelights. Set back from line of road. Gravel verge to front.

This house is a fine, substantial building that retains much of its early character, despite conversion to commercial use. The front (south-east) elevation is somewhat irregularly composed, however, and suggests that the building was originally built for different purposes than residential use, and that it was possibly originally a smaller composition also: the irregular displacement of openings across the bays poses the possibility that the structure was originally four bays wide (the south-western bay being an addition); the larger-scale openings to the top floor suggest that this is also a later addition. The massing of the structure also serves to suggest that the house was originally built for industrial use, taking the form of a converted warehouse. Nevertheless, the building is a prominent feature on the streetscape of Johnstown and introduces a higher roofline to the historic core of the village. The house, together with further houses on the road, is of social and historic significance, representing the development of the historic core of Johnstown in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries. Well-maintained the building retains many of its early or original features and materials, including door furniture with sidelights, early timber sash fenestration and a slate roof.