Site Record

The crown hotel has a 3-storey, late 19th century stucco facade with moulded column timber porch, sash windows and a projecting wing to an earlier building with some 16th century and 17th century internal features. The earlier building was probably 'L' shaped in plan, consisting of the present lounge, formerly divided by a post & panel partition and the projecting wing to front with cellar under. In the 17th century a rear-room was added, the roof raised and a stair was inserted. Further rooms were added, at the rear, during the 19th century and an extra floor was added and the roof was raised to its present height.

Under the projecting wing is an early-16th century, stone, barrel vaulted cellar, which has blocked external opening to front and dressed stone doorway at rear into blocked area with remains of a later bread oven. The basement under the lounge has C16th ceiling-beams and joists. The ground-floor retains 16th century detail, in the lounge's transverse ceiling-beam indicating a former post & panel partition, once divided the room. There are a number of 17th century features, includeing a splat-baluster dog-leg stair, ovolo moulded mullion & transom windows to north side at ground and first-floor and ceiling-beams with ogee stops in the room behind the lounge. Between these two rooms is a back-to-back brick-built fireplace. Visited G A Ward, 25/06/2003.