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
6794
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/01/1963
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
The Castle Inn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llywel
Town
Locality
Trecastle
Easting
288083
Northing
229121
Street Side
S
Location
Situated in the village on S side of A40, facing over lane running S to Pontarhydfer.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Early C19 coaching inn on turnpike road from Brecon to Carmarthen.
Exterior
Hotel, painted stucco with slate hipped roof, missing the original end chimneys. Paired brackets to the eaves. Three storeys, three bays, with hornless 12-pane sashes and painted stone sills. Ground floor has plate glass sashes with sidelights, and centre early C19 six-panel door with bordered panels and rectangular overlight with applied fan tracery. Panelled reveals, thin pilaster responds, all original, but timber porch rebuilt in late C20.
N side to main road is of three storeys, but same roof height, with paired brackets to eaves. Small W end chimney. Windows at differing heights to left than those to centre and right. Left has a blank window to top floor left, a narrow 12-pane casement slightly higher under eaves to right, and a plate glass sash to ground floor right. Centre has small-paned casement to second floor (lower level than those to left) over a flat-roofed two-storey projection with canted three-sided front. Projection has broad angle raised strips and thin raised plinth and top band. First floor has hornless 16-pane sash set flash in architrave. Ground floor has remarkable surviving double bowed shopfront with two 20-pane curved windows and centre former door with traceried overlight, the three bays divided by thin moulded pilasters with square rosettes at tops. Panelled soffit over overlight. Fascia with raised blocks over the pilasters and flat shelf cornice. Former door has been replaced by two casements with marginal glazing bars. Stuccoed wall under bow shop-windows and centre window, low plinth. Right side is three-storey, two-bay with top floor small-paned cross-window and blank window, first floor two hornless 12-pane sashes, and ground floor has C20 window in opening of former sash to right.
Rear W has two gables, the right one asymmetrical. Added single storey wing to right.
S end, of rubble stone, has C20 window under eaves to centre right, and 6-pane window to ground floor centre, and one window each floor to right, all hornless sashes with cambered heads with stone voussoirs. Stone flat-roofed porch in angle to a projecting gabled wing with one window each floor, stone sills, cambered heads.
Interior
Interior not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest as a large Georgian coaching inn, with fine surviving double bowed shopfront to side.
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