Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
10484
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/04/1992
Date of Amendment
14/04/1992
Name of Property
The Black Lion Hotel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Cardigan
Town
Locality
Easting
217761
Northing
246046
Street Side
Location
Situated on street line opposite Eben's Lane.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
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.
Exterior
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
Interior Ground floor altered, one brick-arched fireplace on south end.
Reason for designation
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