10484

 

II  

Designated  

14/04/1992  

14/04/1992  

The Black Lion Hotel  

 

Ceredigion  

Cardigan  

 

 

217761  

246046  

 

Situated on street line opposite Eben's Lane.  

Commercial  

 

Later C18 inn. The principal inn of Cardigan from the C18, site of Town Council meetings before Shire Hall was built 1784. The facade was stuccoed in C19, and is the earliest surviving brick front in the town. The porch was rebuilt after vehicle damage.  

Red brick, Flemish bond with stucco cornice and parapet and slate roof with brick end stacks. Three-storey, 5 window range of sashes with cambered brick heads, 6-pane to second floor, 12-pane to first floor, ground floor sashes replaced by shallow 12-pane C20 bow windows. Centre door with traceried overlight. Slate sills except to ground floor that has C20 brick sills. Door is in C20 rebuilt timber classical porch of 2 Roman Doric columns, the shafts untapered and without bases, pilaster responds, entablature with triglyphs over columns and flat cornice. Two lead downpipes with embossed lions on rainwater heads. Rear is stone with 2 rear wings, that to south taller with truncated brick stack, that to north with 2 brick corner stacks and arch-headed gable window.  

Interior Ground floor altered, one brick-arched fireplace on south end.