Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Unicorn Hotel P.H.
Llanidloes, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 10 April 1989
- Community
- Llanidloes
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.44900, -3.54030
- Cadw reference
- 8321
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set into a row of street frontages near the central crossroads; stepped down from the adjoining properties
History
Early C19 late Georgian broad 3-storey
Exterior
4-window painted brick front with plinth. Slate roof with boarded eaves and brick chimney stack to left. 9 and 12-pane sash windows with voussoirs and cills, one to 1st floor with quite broad glazing bars. Hotel sign is between 1st and 2nd floors to left. The main entrance is to centre of No 4 with broad classical doorcase and 4-panel door. Victorian 'shopfront' to No 5 with fascia ends, dentil cornice and twinned round arches to window heads with colonnettes. Central splayed entrance with narrow frosted glass door. Cambered carriage arch at right to gated through passage with brick wall to left and rubble wall to right. Rubble rear with modern glazing.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Unicorn Hotel P.H.Commercialunder 1 mi
- Midland BankCommercialunder 1 mi
- 3 Long Bridge StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Ceri HillCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.