82, Fore Street

No. 82 Fore Street is an inn and hotel that has been converted into a shop with student accommodation above. It was rebuilt in 1890 on the site of the historic 'Talbot Inn', designed by architect H. Johnson. The building features yellow-grey brick with stone dressings and has a Welsh slated roof.

The exterior is three storeys high. The first floor has a broad segmental arch with a moulded extrados and a console keyblock, framing recessed and projecting canted mullion and transom windows, with sidelights that have architrave surrounds. Above the centre window is a panel, and the upper lights are leaded. There is a cornice at the second-floor sill level and a balcony below the first-floor sills, supported by stone turned balusters and a moulded top rail. The second floor has two coupled arched sash windows separated by antae, flanked by pilasters with semicircular arches and dripmoulds. The outer pilasters support a panelled fascia topped with a scrolled pediment parapet. The ground floor features stone pilasters with carved brackets that support the first floor above, with recessed doors and windows. The left side has been modified to lead into an alleyway, and there are moulded window surrounds and panelled stallrisers.

Inside, the bar fittings have been removed from the ground floor due to the conversion to a shop, but cased beams with panelled covers remain in the ceilings. The upper floors were converted to student residences in 1992, featuring a late 19th-century staircase with Japanese-style balusters, an open string, and turned newels with a squat column and pawn finial. Access to the upper floors is now through Dimsdale House, which is adjacent. The site was part of a block rebuilt in 1890 by Poors Charity for the new Post Office, with Nos. 84 and 86 Fore Street adjoining to the east.