Prince of Wales Public House

The Prince of Wales Public House, together with No 41 Station Road and incorporating flat No 41A, Station Road, was built in the early 1840s. It originally served as a hotel, commissioned by Benjamin Badger to cater to passengers using the newly opened Masbrough railway station opposite. The building is constructed of ashlar and horizontally-tooled sandstone, with a Welsh slate roof. It occupies a corner site with a return facade facing Station Road.

The main facade is three storeys high, with cellars beneath, and is five bays wide by three bays deep. A wing extends to the rear right, and a single-storey link-block connects to a two-storey, three-bay house (No 41 Station Road) to the rear left. The main facade features a plain ashlar plinth and rusticated ashlar walling to the ground floor, with quoins above. A central portico has 20th-century double doors flanked by paired Doric columns, with an entablature that continues around the building. A panelled door with external stone steps is located in bay five, while other bays have renewed casements. The first floor has a balustrade with flanking dies beneath the central window, and a die cornice that returns as a moulded sill band. All windows feature paired brackets to projecting moulded sills, renewed casements in raised surrounds with architraves and consoled cornices, and the Prince of Wales feathers are set above the central window. The short second-floor windows have sill blocks, moulded sills, and casements in architraves. The building has a frieze, deep eaves projection with a modillioned cornice, and a hipped roof. The left return of the main block is in a similar style. The link-block to the rear is set back and has a keyed round-arched opening that is now a window.

No 41 Station Road has rusticated quoins. The central doorway, flanked by casements in architraves with sill blocks to moulded sills, features an architrave. A ground-floor entablature is continued from the main building. The first-floor windows have shouldered and eared architraves. The eaves have been altered, and the roof is hipped with corniced end stacks. A round-arched panel is located in the right return.

A lean-to building to the left return of No 41 Station Road is not of special interest. The building is considered to have group value.