Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bar to the Bear Hotel
Crickhowell, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1986
- Town
- Crickhowell
- Community
- Crickhowell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85936, -3.13709
- Cadw reference
- 7201
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Forward to the street on a narrow stretch opposite the Cambrian Hotel.
History
Early C19 (on 1840 Tithe Map)
Exterior
Short 2-storey terrace; uneven 4-window roughcast front to the Bar and 2-window scribed stucco front to No 5. Undulating slate roof and roughcast chimney stack; mainly small pane sash glazing. Later C19 shop front with splayed entrance to No 5. End pilaster strip, cill band and plinth to the Bar; cambered architraves with keystones to outer ground floor windows, tripartite window beside pedimented architrave to 4-panel door.
Reason for designation
Included for group value.
Nearby in the register
- The Bear HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- 5 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Cambrian Arms HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- H.J. & D.Webb & SonsCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.