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.
Date of Designation
09/05/1988
Date of Amendment
09/05/1988
Name of Property
The Elephant and Castle Hotel
Community
Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
Location
Prominently sited on the street line at the end of Broad Street by the Long Bridge.
History
Early C19 Inn (Noted in 1822).
Exterior
3 storey, 3 window symmetrical front. Colourwashed Flemish bond brick. Gently pitched slate roof, lead ridge, blocking course on plain cornice. Brick stacks, truncated to left. Modern casements to 2nd and 1st floor windows, modern shutters and ironwork balcony. Original tripartite sash to ground floor left. Gauged brick voussoirs, plain reveals, stone sills. Round arched doorway. Simply moulded, flat roofed open porch on square pillars.
English garden wall bond brick to rear. 9 and 12 pane sash windows, raking lead dormers to roof. Later accretions include converted flannel factory.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Long Bridge and other listed items on Broad Street.
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