Castle Hotel, York, Historic inland hotel in York, Western Australia

The Castle Hotel stands on Avon Terrace in York, Western Australia, built in three stages: the 1853 original, a large 1862 addition to the south, and a corner Federation Filigree wing added by May Craig in 1905 and 1912. The older section is described as an almost perfectly preserved coaching inn complex, with kitchen, meat house, laundry, bathrooms, forge, stables and fodder house grouped around a broad rear courtyard. The corner addition, designed by architect William G Wolf, is screened with a loggia-like verandah.

The hotel was founded in 1853 and is one of the oldest continuously operating inland hotels in Western Australia. Its construction was made possible through labor sourced from local convict facilities that operated at the time.

The York Agricultural Society held all its meetings here from 1854 and treated the hotel as its unofficial headquarters. Samuel Craig's 1854 opening notice promised "the largest and choicest selection of wines, spirits, etc ever brought over the hill". Licensee Mary Craig, widowed a month after taking over in 1869, was known as the "hostess" of the Castle Hotel.

The hotel stands on Avon Terrace, with the 1853 section on the street front and the 1905/1912 corner addition at the junction. The older coaching-inn complex, including kitchen, laundry, forge, stables and fodder house, is grouped around a broad courtyard at the back. The cellar flooded to a depth of about one metre in July 1862.

During renovation work in 1989, a royal coat of arms was discovered beneath layers of decoration and now hangs in the dining room. This emblem directly connects the building to colonial governance and speaks to its historical standing.