[4] The hotel is reputedly haunted by an old stagecoach which draws up to the front door to collect phantom passengers in the night.

Apart from the stage coach's arrival, sounds of horses clattering on the cobble stones are also heard, particularly during the early morning hours of the autumn season.

Along with whip cracking and horse whining, an invisible clock chimes twice in a back street of the hotel following the departure of the carriage.

[5] The hotel is a grade II* listed building,[6] of the early Georgian style but with a Victorian facade, four stories with an attic, painted white, built as two separate merchant houses.

"[7] Other notable features in the hotel are old leather-bound books in the library, woodwork from a "Spanish man-o-war in the Galleon bar", antique chaises longues, huge carved chairs, and velvet curtains.