Celtic Royal Hotel

Modernised internally with altered layout and no earlier features than late C19 decorative-tile floor inside the entrance.

A 3-storey Georgian hotel comprising a 5-bay main range with 4-bay set-back wings. The symmetrical main range is square in plan, ashlar, with a plat band above the lower storey and upper-storey sill band, with a hipped slate roof on a moulded cornice, and stack behind the front ridge. Windows are 12-pane horned sashes, smaller in the upper storey, beneath lintels. The entrance is within a portico with paired Tuscan columns, blank entablature, and a blocking course. The doorway has half-lit panelled doors and a rectangular overlight with iron radial glazing.

The lower flanking wings are of painted roughcast with slate roofs hipped to the outer sides with 2 ridge stacks, and in each wing the central 2 bays are recessed. Middle and upper storeys have sill bands continuous with the plat and sill bands of the main range. Windows are 12-pane horned sashes, smaller in the upper storey, except for a tripartite window in the lower-storey outer bays, and inserted double panelled doors under overlights to the inner bays. In the R end wall the sill bands are continuous with the front. The upper storey has traces of earlier scribed roughcast, and has a 12-pane horned sash window upper L and small 2-pane sashes offset to the R in the middle and upper storeys. A window has been inserted between the 2 wings in the lower storey. An attached rear wing, under a separate hipped roof, retains a tripartite sash window above a gabled projection in the upper storey, with a 12-pane horned sash to its L in the middle storey, but is otherwise altered. The L end has an added bay set further back, which has a 6-pane late C19 horned sash windows in the middle and upper storeys and inserted windows on the R side. Late C20 additions are at the rear.