2 The Cross, Main Street, Penpont

Early 19th century, two-storey, three-bay former public house and Temperance Hotel (with later change of use and subdivision to form Nos. 2 and 3 The Cross), built in squared and coursed red sandstone with ashlar margins, all painted white. The street (south) elevation is almost symmetrical with a centered door set within a corniced stone-slab porch.

The first floor windows are set just below the eaves. There is a bipartite window to the left of the main door. There are timber sash and case windows and to the right hand side of the front elevation and to the side (to No. 3 The Cross) are uPVC replacement windows. The roof is piended to the east side and has corniced end stacks, and is roofed with graded grey slates. There is a two-storey, two-bay wing adjoining the rear elevation forming an L-plan.

The interior, seen in 2018, has been subdivided so that the third bay and rear wing now form No. 3. There is a stone staircase with timber handrail at No. 2, and a timber staircase at No. 3. The basement level has been infilled.

To the rear, a single-storey, mono-pitch outbuilding range with sliding timber doors (probably built as overnight stabling accommodation and later altered to garage or storage function) extends to the north. There is also a cobblestone yard to the rear.