The Dragon Hotel

Main entrance is into former through passage, now enclosed with modern glazed doors. Brick walls, six-panel fielded-panelled doors, stone cobbled setts. NW dining-room made from two rooms joined together has ornately reeded and stopped spine beam and joists of the late C16 in the W half. The NE room, has bar partly concealing a large S wall fireplace with stone jambs and fine late C16 moulded lintel, the edge mouldings hollow/ fillet/ ogee, run out each end, and the face with two scribed fillets. Plaster ceiling has three deep rectangular panels with heavy mouldings of early C18 date. Panelled early C19 shutters to tripartite sash. Rest of interior not inspected.

Hotel, stuccoed with applied C19 timbering above the ground floor, extending up into added late C19 gable to left and three gabled large dormers. Slate roof hipped to left corner and with right end brick stack. Gable to left and three dormers have overhanging verges. Two storeys and attic, with cellar, a wide band of windowless mock framing between first floor windows and eaves. Four bays. Broad gabled bay to left has triple sash of 4-12-4 panes to ground floor and of 3-9-3 panes to first floor and a pair of 6-pane sashes in gable. The first floor then has three hornless 9-pane sashes over respectively, a wide carriageway with chamfered jambs and billet-moulded lintel; a big canted bay window with hipped slate roof and three horned 12-pane sashes; a modern window with hopper top light. Narrow E return has a broad cambered-headed basement doorway with double ledged doors and long hinges, another gabled C19 dormer. Brick S end stack on massive rendered square external chimneybreast, visible from rear court of Braemar, Kerry St. Rear court flanked by two long wings, the SW one raised on bank with N end adjoining but set back from right end of main facade. Rubble stone, with hipped roof at N end over leaded first floor three-light with top-lights. Range runs back in two sections, rear W wall of stone and then of brick. Front to court has modern render, two narrow horned sash windows with glazing bars on first floor, to former assembly room, over a modern garage entry, a half-glazed modern door and a hipped porch. Broad projecting gable on rear left of main range, in painted stucco with modern windows, and rear right has one bay of renewed windows over C20 additions at ground floor. To right, at right angles, one-bay rear wing has W big mock timbered gable and the massive S end chimney with brick stack. Attached are three SE rear wings. The first has two large modern dormers and rendered front with late C19 porch with hipped slate roof, the second set back and lower is obscured by a big C20 conservatory but the upper floor has some square-framed timbering and a big late C19 or C20 dormer on eaves. Taller two-storey painted brick S end block with C20 casement windows. The rear of these ranges, seen from rear yard of Braemar, Kerry St, shows a complex building history. The first is of red brick and rubble stone mixed to left, red brick to right, two storeys on high base. Four first floor horned sashes, 9-pane to left, shorter 6-pane to right, over three cambered-headed 12-pane sashes. Second lower range has heavy C17 square framing over rubble high plinth. Three by seven panels with some angle braces in top panels, red brick infill to four-panel section to right, plaster to three-panel left part which has a small rendered gable above with modern window. Windowless rendered rear wall to third building.