Wynnstay Hotel

SJ 2829 SE; 15/32

OSWESTRY C.P., CHURCH STREET (east side), No. 43 (Wynnstay Hotel)

10.9.51

GV

II

House, now hotel. Late C18 with later additions and alterations. For Sir Watkin Williams Wynn. Red brick, hipped slate roof with two external end stacks to right. Three storeys, moulded stone eaves cornice to front and toothed eaves cornice to sides; 6-window front to main section, glazing bar sashes (15-paned to first floor) with gauged heads, C20 shutters to ground floor; entrance in fourth bay from left, Roman Doric portico with two pairs of coupled columns and re-modelled entablature, half-glazed inner door with rectangular overlight; good ornamental wrought-iron bracket for former inn sign above entrance. Mid-C19 2-storey, 2-bay range to left also with glazing bar sashes. Rear elevation of main section has a 3-light angular bay to left and a Venetian window on first floor beneath central pediment. Interior: considerably altered late C20; former ballroom on first floor now divided into three rooms and corridor but retains moulded plaster cornice to ceiling and a medallion of crossed foxes and eagles, emblems from the Arms of the Williams-Wynn family; wooden fireplace with Adam-style surround to rear ground-floor room on right. Late C19 red brick addition set back to rear on left is not of special architectural interest.

Formerly known as The Wynnstay Arms and previously to that as The Cross Foxes, the building is referred to in the diary of the English and Welsh trip undertaken by the Dublin architect, Francis Johnson, in 1796. B.O.E, p. 224.

Listing NGR: SJ2893729380