Royal Hotel

The Royal Hotel is a three-storey building with rendered elevations, featuring a cill band above a rusticated ground floor and a slate roof. There is a cement rendered cill band above the chimney stacks. The earlier section of the hotel is a four-window late Georgian range that faces the War Memorial Garden, showcasing small pane sash windows with moulded architraves on the first floor. The main entrance has a porch with chamfered piers, a bracket cornice, and arched openings, now fitted with modern half-glazed doors. To the right of the entrance, a former doorway has been replaced with a round arched headed Victorian sash window.

To the right is a modern four-bay range, while to the left, two bays lead to the corner with Castle Street, featuring Victorian sash windows and gables on the second floor, along with inserted modern windows on the first floor above a carriage entry next to a tripartite oriel supported by pilasters. There is a modern entrance on the right and broad boarded doors on the left. The two bays at the splayed corner have similar detailing and a panelled door beneath a bracketed hood. The four bays facing Castle Street mainly consist of modern windows and a modern shop front.

The northwest corner and rear of the hotel, which face the river, feature a Gothic range built around 1870, designed in a style similar to that of the Town Hall (constructed in 1867) by Lloyd Williams and Underwood, County Architects. This section has a hipped purple and green slate roof, with quatrefoils on the first-floor windows and round arched headed windows below, adorned with foliage capitals. There is an oriel window to the left and a trefoil band between the bays. Set back beyond this is a three-bay range with a rubble base extending down to the river, culminating in an octagonal tower. Adjacent to this is a late 18th-century building with two plus three bays, which is taller and features small pane windows and a hipped roof on the left.

Inside, there is a late Georgian main staircase, though it has a later balustrade.