The King's Highway

Known in old charters as The King's Highway to the North, Church Street was first referred to by that name in 1240.

In Pevsner's guide, this site, at numbers 72-74, was built c1840. In 1860, the building was the Northern Hotel, and it became the Queen's Hotel in the 1880s/1890s. It acquired its present name - Cummings Hotel - from the family which owned it in the first half of the 20th century.