The Clwyd PH

This is a hotel, built in an Old English style. It dates to an uncertain period, and occupies a corner site. The building is asymmetrical in overall form, but presents a symmetrical front façade. It is two storeys and has attics, constructed of red brick with partial timber framing to the front, and is covered by hipped red-tiled roofs with ribbed brick stacks.

The front façade has three bays, with advanced gabled bays flanking the central entrance. The gabled bays are timber-framed to the first and attic storeys, with the gables featuring waved diagonal struts, slightly jettied on brackets. The central bay has overhanging eaves that project down over a first-floor balcony, supported on two turned and decorated timber posts with braces to the upper angles forming arches. Timber balustrading fronts the balcony, which also acts as a porch over the entrance, and is supported on two matching turned timber posts aligned with those above. The entrance has half-glazed double panelled doors containing original frosted glass, topped with a large-pane overlight and side-lights. Ground floor windows in the outer bays are large, transomed four-light wooden windows with arched lights and original frosted glass; one reads ‘coffee room’ and another 'committee room’. Single windows are present on the returns of the gabled bays, linked by a continuous stone sill band. The first floor and attic have small-pane glazing. The balcony is accessed by a half-glazed panelled door with side-lights. Above is a flat-roofed attic dormer containing a four-light casement. The outer gabled bays have three-light wooden casements to the first and attic storeys, with tall two-light casements to the outer returns on the first floor. The roof is hipped to the right, with a stack to the pitch, but to the left it is stepped and hipped with a stack at the end; this end is abutted by further buildings.

The east end of the building is prominent. It is asymmetrical and three-window wide, with a stack to the right and segmental brick heads to the openings. A central inset doorway contains a part-glazed panelled door, flanked by large transomed three-light wooden windows. A moulded brick string course runs along the first floor, above which are irregular three-light small-pane wooden casements. The attic has two dormers with similar casements, a raked half-dormer to the centre, and a hipped-roofed dormer to the right. Adjoining the right end is a lower two-storey unit with continuous brickwork. This unit has two single lights to the first floor over a three-light window. Its gable end has a first-floor fire-escape door offset to the right, with a small brick addition below. To the rear, flat-roofed blocks extend from the ground floor. A gabled attic dormer containing a three-light small-pane casement is centrally located over another casement. To the right is a wide gabled wing featuring two large transomed three-light windows to the first floor (that to the left including a narrow door) and a four-light small-pane casement to the attic.

The interior was not inspected.