It was a Hotel with small adjoining shop, now internally integrated as public house. Main range 1907, by William and Segar Owen; altered internally. Small red stock bricks with blue diapering, the upper floors faced with applied small stones (perhaps in imitation of flints) with brick quoining and gable copings; with dressings of red sandstone and red terracotta (including window surrounds and mullions); hipped green slate roofs. Irregular L-plan on corner site, with splayed corner to left (London Road). Free neo-Jacobean style, with diapered brickwork, mullion-and-transom windows, steep gables with finials and tall chimneys. Two-and-a- half storeys, a 3-window facade to Victoria Square (including the played corner); with coved eaves broken by a broad attic gable over the centre, a smaller attic gable to the right, and by a stone Dutch gable to the splayed left corner. A wide loggia formed by a Jacobean-style open-work timber balcony supported on 2 white granite columns covers the centre of the ground floor, bridging a canted bay window in the centre and protecting one doorway to the left and coupled doorways to the right; to the left is a 1-light window with enriched terracotta lintel, and to the right a transomed 6-light window.  The 1st floor has a large 14-light transomed window with a glazed balcony door, and a 3-light mullioned window to the right, and the gables above have 4- and 3-light windows respectively. The splayed corner is featured in sandstone, with a 6-light bow window at ground floor framed by panelled pilasters with carved consoles to a 1st-floor oriel which has a cross-window and Renaissance enrichment including a Dutch gable. Tall clustered and corniced brick chimneys (one in the centre and one on each side slope). The 5-window left return to London Road has (inter alia) a broad gable to the centre, a stone 2-storey canted bay window to the right-hand half of this, a matching canted bay to the left of it and tiered 2-light stairwindows between these. The FORMER SHOP attached to the right of the main range has a gabled Tudor-style timber-framed facade of 2 low storeys, with a simple doorway and shop-window at ground floor, a jettied upper floor with sturdy square- framing and a canted oriel which has honeycomb leaded glazing, a jettied timber-framed gable carried across this and supported by large moulded brackets at the corners, and oversailing eaves likewise on brackets. Interiors altered, but main range retains original hotel staircase.  Formsgroup with Red Lion Hotel (q.v.) on opposite side of London Road, and with PoliceStation on east side of square (q.v.)Grade 2 Listing NGR: SJ6142786167

Police station and magistrates' courts, with integral lodgings for constables;

It is now all police station. Dated 1912 on gable and rain-water hopper with minor alteration. Red brick in English garden wall bond, with red sandstone dressings, red tiled roof hipped over the north end. Main range on north-south axis with police station at ground floor, former magistrates' court above and fonner constables' lodgings at north end including short west wing and longer east wing. Arts-and-Crafts style. Two-and-a-half storeys, 3:3:1 windows including a gabled wing to the left combined with a 2-storey flat-roofed porch-cum-stair-turret in the re-entrant angle, and a broad gabled staircase wing to the right. There is a broad stone band with weathered drip-course over each floor, both carried round. The central portion has 2 buttresses, three windows at ground floor, a pair of tall 6-light mullion-and-transom windows flanking the left buttress and breaking the eaves with a pedimental gable containing a stone plaque lettered "1912", and a cross-window to the right of the 2nd buttress. The 2-storey porch to the left has an arched doorway in its re-entrant side (former public entrance to court), a 2-light window above, a large rainwater hopper to the left lettered "1912", and a brick parapet with stone coping. The left wing, flush with the porch (which has a 2-light window on each floor close to the junction), has a recently blocked doorway to the firth (formerly to the domestic quarters), a 2-light window to the left, 2 similar windows at 1st floor and a large coped gable with 2 similar but smaller windows.

 The staircase wing to the right has an arched doorway offset left and a cross-window at 1st floor. Tall banded and corniced chimney behind ridge of roof, roof siren near south end. The gabled south front has a wide arched entrance offset left, with a splayed reveal, moulded surround and stone head, and a recessed square-headed doorway with an overlight of 3 arched lights; a 6-light mullion-and-transom window to the right, a very large tripartite mullion-and-transom window at 1st floor with bebased Art Nouveau leaded glazing, and a small 3-light mullioned window in the gable, the centre light containing a carved shield with a crown over it. INTERIOR: large courtroom at 1st floor with original pitch-pine panelling, magistrates' bench, prisoners' dock, and journalists' pew ; former police cells at ground floor.

Forms group with Mulberry Tree Hotel on north side of square (q.v.), and with Red Lion Inn on west side of London Road (q.v.). Grade 2 Listing NGR: SJ6145686161

Public house and attached outbuildings. c.1800, extended early C19. MATERIALS: Flemish bond red brick. Welsh slate roof. 3 brick ridge stacks. PLAN: central entrance to corridor with 2 bars on left and drinking lobby with bar counter on right with further bar behind. Public bar('Vaults')in extension to right. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys to symmetrical, central, earlier part. Rusticated quoins. Central windows above doorway blocked. Tall sashes on lower storeys, squat sashes on third storey. Recessed porch, basket-arched plaster surround with keystone and square springers in broader basket-arched brick recess. Smaller basket-arched brick recess in the extension contains the 'Vaults' door. Single sash window either side of this doorway and one on each of the upper floors. Rear windows have varied assemblage of casements. INTERIOR: Rear left-hand bar with fixed seating and bell pushes. Otherwise furnishings largely late C20. A good example of a public house that retains its multi-room plan and a drinking lobby. Grade 2 Listing NGR: SJ6139186164

The Church was built in 1868, by E.G.Paley, Pinkish-red sandstone with roofs of graded Westmorland green slates.   4-stage battlemented west tower with octagonal south-east turret;   4 bay nave with south aisle under parallel  ridged  roof;   south  porch;   north  transept;   north vestry/sacristy and organ loft;  2 bay chancel.  Geometrical tracery; the west window, south aisle (three eastern bays), east and south windows of the chancel and north window of transept have stained glass.

 Interior:   Arcade  of  round  columns  with  stiff-leaf  capitals; arch-braced roof.  Richly-coloured patterned tilework on north and south walls of chancel in memory of William Hayes, Vicar 1852-75. Reredos of marble and embossed patterned tiles.The church is successor to one built in 1838. Listing NGR: SJ6134686317