Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lion Hotel and Prospect House
Carreghofa, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanymynech, Carreghofa, Powys, designated on 19 November 2024.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 November 2024
- Welsh name
- Lion Hotel a Prospect House
- Town
- Llanymynech
- Community
- Carreghofa
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.78007, -3.08805
- Cadw reference
- 87947
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 137 Oswestry (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
East side of North Road (A483), Llanymynech, near the junction with Rectory Lane. The building straddles the England Wales border, with the front elevations in Wales.
History
The Lion Hotel and Prospect House are said to be early C19 and a building is shown on this site on the 1828 Tithe Map, built on what-was common land. The Lion Hotel is marked as such on the 1874-5 OS map.
Exterior
Symmetrical pair of houses in Georgian architectural style. Prospect House, left, Lion Hotel, right.
3 storeys and cellar. Cement-rendered brick and uncoursed limestone rubble with plinth and imitation angle quoins; low pitched hipped slate roof with deep eaves, red brick ridge stack to centre and integral end stack to left and 2 to right. Catslide roof over rear service range. Iron rainwater goods.
6 bays with wider gap to centre; glazing bar sashes with margin lights to sides and top, reduced proportions to top floor. Surviving windows are 12-pane on ground and first floors, 9-pane on second floor. 4 boarded-up windows in south-facing gable, rear windows are late C20.
Each house has central entrance, Prospect House with C20 diagonally boarded door and C19 rectangular barred overlight in Doric-columned stone doorcase with plain moulded entablature. Lion Hotel has recessed six-panel door (upper panels now glazed) with rectangular overlight under stone Doric porch with plain moulded entablature.
Stone mounting block attached to right return. C19 2-storey range in unrendered brick to rear, including former stables and cart/coach-house.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Special historic and architectural interest as a pair of early C19 townhouses in the Georgian architectural tradition.
Nearby in the register
- Ty-CroesTransportunder 1 mi
- Ashfield StoresDomesticunder 1 mi
- Giulio's RestaurantDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cottage adjacent to the Presbyterian ChapelDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.