Description

HIGH STREET
1.
5303
(West Side)
Nos 37 and 38
(The Angel Hotel)
(formerly listed as
The Angel Hotel and No 38)
SP 7387 1/25
SP 7387 1/26 25.7.52.
II GV

2.
The original hotel has a good late C18 symmetrical stucco facade with bands at 1st
and 2nd floor sill heights. Modern tiled plinth. Moulded wooden eaves cornice
with low pitched slate roof. 3 storeys. 5 windows, sashes with glazing bars and
boxed frames, those on ground floor with cambered head linings. Rectangular projecting
central Tuscan porch with small cornice and modern iron balustrade above. Carriageway
entrance to rear yard under No 36 (qv). Rear range of former stables. Small single
storey gabled outbuilding with Venetian window in gable end visible from street.
Irregular rear facade of C18 and C19 red brick and painted brick. C19 square bay
shop window at rear of building. To the right a property now used as part of the
hotel. Its facade is mid/later C18, but timber exposed in north side passage wall
suggests an earlier core. Facade now painted white. Originally of 3 storeys but
top raised in C19 and a steep slate roof with 2 C19 gabled dormers added. 3 windows,
centre blind, outer windows 3-light unbarred ashes. Modern door in later C18 wooden
doorcase with flat hood on plain brackets, small ornamental frieze, fanlight. Additional
side entrance.

Listing NGR: SP7318987453

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26511110

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