Wynnstay Hotel

The Wynnstay Hotel is a house that has been converted into a hotel. It was built in the late 18th century and has had some later additions and alterations. The building was commissioned by Sir Watkin Williams Wynn. It features a red brick exterior with a hipped slate roof and two external end stacks on the right side. The hotel has three storeys and boasts a moulded stone eaves cornice at the front and a toothed eaves cornice on the sides. The main section has a six-window front, with glazing bar sashes (15-paned on the first floor) that have gauged heads, and 20th-century shutters on the ground floor. The entrance is located in the fourth bay from the left and is highlighted by a Roman Doric portico with two pairs of coupled columns and a re-modelled entablature. There is a half-glazed inner door with a rectangular overlight, and an ornamental wrought-iron bracket for a former inn sign is positioned above the entrance.

To the left, there is a mid-19th century two-storey, two-bay range that also features glazing bar sashes. The rear elevation of the main section includes a three-light angular bay to the left and a Venetian window on the first floor beneath a central pediment. Inside, the hotel has been considerably altered in the late 20th century; the former ballroom on the first floor has been divided into three rooms and a corridor but still retains a moulded plaster cornice on the ceiling and a medallion featuring crossed foxes and eagles, which are emblems from the Arms of the Williams-Wynn family. There is also a wooden fireplace with an Adam-style surround in the rear ground-floor room on the right. A late 19th-century red brick addition set back to the rear on the left is not considered to be of special architectural interest.

The building was formerly known as The Wynnstay Arms and previously as The Cross Foxes. It is mentioned in the diary of the Dublin architect Francis Johnson, who traveled through England and Wales in 1796.