Bron-Eifion Hotel

The Bron-Eifion Hotel is a late 19th-century building constructed in a simplified domestic Gothic style. It is built using dark-coloured, snecked rock-faced greywacke from Snowdonia, with stone dressings around the openings and lintels, and slate roofs. The hotel is two storeys high with attics.

The south elevation, overlooking the 19th-century gardens, consists of two similar, shouldered gables, separated by a recessed centre section, all featuring a continuous lean-to verandah over the raised ground floor. The windows are plate glass, with two-light windows in the gables and cross windows on the ground floor. A modern single-storey section with an attic is set back to the right, incorporating a large bay window to the principal dining room.

The west-facing entrance front, overlooking a large courtyard drive, is designed with balanced asymmetry, featuring a recessed centre flanked by double gabled wings. It is extended to the north by recessed, timber-framed gable ends of the service range. The south front returns as the main gable and includes a verandah on the ground floor, a smaller gable to its left, and a set-back main hall range connected by a curved, glazed section with a glazed roof over the main entrance. Further gabled sections are located to the left, one featuring a first-floor square bay. Narrow plate glass sash windows, a parapet, and the glazed clerestory of the central great hall (with its own hipped roof) are located above the entrance and recessed section. The rear of the hotel includes extensive service buildings, many timber-framed and gabled to create a picturesque outline, including two framed gables on the main block.

The glazed entrance leads to a tiled entrance lobby, featuring two bold dressed stone arches leading into the great hall. This is the main circulation space, with a heavily detailed pine gallery at first floor level and a coved roof with angled trusses resting on corbels. Clerestory windows illuminate the hall from above, with the ends plastered. The lower levels feature high panelling and timber moulded architraves around the windows. At the north end of the hall, a large stone fireplace in a medieval style has a projecting canopy swept up to a corbel under the gallery. The staircase features a carved arcaded balustrade and wall panelling.