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Date of photo: 2019	Picture source: Admin
The New Rooms Inn was situated on Cove Row. A grade-II listed building which is now used as a coffee house. Present by 1861 when the publican was William Hart.
Listed building details:
Public house. Mid C19. Rendered, slate roof. A prominent building on the corner to Cove Street, with slight rear wing under swept-down roof. Exterior: 3 storeys, 2 windows; 4-pane sashes in moulded architraves to the left, and a 2-storey canted bay with sashes to the right, with moulded cornice immediately below main cornice. Ground floor is brought forward under a flat roof, over a central door flanked by full-width glazing in 3 lights with smaller panes over, all in pilasters, doubled to the doorway, and with a modelled stall riser. Set back in the main wall plane, left, is a 6-panel fielded door under a fanlight. Channelled quoins, frieze with bold cornice, blocking course brought forward above the quoins, and parapet; these are all returned to the right flank, in Cove Street, with a broad central stack and plain upper floors, carrying in bold raised sans-serif lettering The New Rooms Inn. A further stack at the left-hand end. Ground floor, slightly brought forward as at the front, has one plain panel and 3 lights, with 3 pilasters. Rear has several 12-pane sashes, including one to the right which breaks through the eaves in a portion of the low-pitched roof which sweeps down. Ground floor is concealed by a later one-storey addition. Interior: not inspected.
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