Royal Madoc Arms Hotel

A late Georgian style hotel, symmetrically designed with central 3 bay, 3 storeyed and attic block, flanked by lower 2-storey 2-bay in-line wings. Roughly dressed blocks of quarried stone laid in regular courses, slate roof behind coped gables and stone end stacks to the main range. A rendered central flat-roofed porch has round-headed openings in the side walls. The entrance has a half-glazed fielded-panel door. Windows have late C19 rendered architraves with shallow triangular heads. The lower storey has 4-pane horned sashes, the middle storey 12-pane hornless sashes (horned to the R-hand) and the upper storey 6-pane hornless sashes. Three hipped roof dormers have 2-light casements. The R-hand wing (the original tap room) is in line with the main range and abuts the Market Hall. It has surrounds similar to the main range, 12-pane hornless sashes in the upper storey, a glazed door with glazed side panel inserted into an earlier doorway to the lower R, and a large inserted small-pane bay window to the L.

The L-hand wing has a roof hipped to the L side and a central, heightened stone stack. It has a half-glazed fielded-panel door to the L (similar to the main entrance doorway) and 4-pane horned sashes in rendered architraves. At the L end is a lean-to with boarded door. The 3-window L side wall of the wing has, in the lower storey, a central window boarded up and a 12-pane horned sash window to the L. In the upper storey are 4-pane sash windows to the centre and L and a blocked window to the R. At the L end is a modern canopy attached to No 1 Dublin Street (the former stable block).

The 2-window rear of the main range has 12-pane sash windows in the middle storey but mostly replacement windows, an added escape stair from the attic and inserted attic roof dormer. The wing on the L side has a flat-roofed projection and a replacement small-pane window in the upper storey. The longer wing on the R side has an added flat-roofed projection.

The main range is now a single room in the lower storey. The fireplace on the L side has a massive freestone cambered lintel.