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
9060
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/09/1985
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Hotel Commodore
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llandrindod Wells
Town
Locality
Easting
305870
Northing
261069
Street Side
Location
Set back from the road in its own grounds and situated on a downhill slope to north-west of the Parish Church.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Originally built 1882-4 by S W Williams as the rectory to Holy Trinity Parish Church, after the appointment in November 1881 of Archdeacon de Winton as rector. The building was enlarged in 1896/7 and converted to hotel use (named the Plas Winton Hotel before becoming the Commodore) although retaining some of the original fabric and similar ground plan.
Exterior
Arts and Crafts (Webb/Shaw influence). 4-storey and attic, 5-stepped - gable tile-hung front with rubble and whitewashed dressings to ground floor and regularly spaced bands of fish-scale tiling above, swept out over foliated treracotta band courses between 2nd and 3rd floors and over black brick band course between ground and 1st floors. Tiled roofs with 6 multiflue chimney stacks with moulded caps. Cusped and ogee-headed bargeboards to gables with wide boarded eaves. Broad gable over advanced double bay incorporating main entrance. 1 bay set well back to right and 2 individually gabled bays set back beyond. Same 2-light paired sash window type throughout 1st, 3rd and 4th floors except bay to right of entrance which has 3-light grouped sash windows. The 2nd (main) floor is emphasised by oriel windows with bracket bases under small hipped-roof hoods supported on curved brackets; also to return sides of main advanced double bay. 4-and 5-light grouped sash windows to ground floor, lean-to hood over advanced plain porch with modern doors.
Twin gabled right side in same style with single storey and attic rubble and tile-hung extension (formerly the Parish Room) with twin tile-hung dormers to right. Similar left side with bay window to ground floor. Modern extensions to rear and to ground floor left.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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