The Dolaucothi Arms

The Dolaucothi Arms is a late 18th century public house of group value, much altered in subsequent periods. The main building is a two-storey, three-bay symmetrical structure. The front facade is rendered and colourwashed with a slate roof, featuring rendered gable chimney stacks, the one on the right being particularly thick. The upper floor has tall 12-pane horned sash windows, while the ground floor windows are wider 16-pane sashes, all with raised, cemented double lugged architraves. A central doorway features an elliptical head, paired panelled doors, a glazed overlight, and a raised architrave. A sill band runs above the ground floor windows. A single-storey lean-to has been added to the left side, featuring 2-light 4-pane casement windows. The right end of the front facade has a 4-panel door and two 4-pane horned sashes, also with raised architraves, and a single-pane attic window. Raised lettering spelling out "Dolaucothi Hotel" is positioned on the first floor within a decorative surround.

The rear of the building includes a wing to the right, with a rendered gable stack. The main building’s roof extends over an outshut to the left. The road elevation of the wing has a pivoted 4-pane window above and a 2-light cast iron latticed casement to its right, with a transom and mullion window below incorporating cast iron latticed glazing.

Internally, the building has a late 19th century dogleg stick-baluster staircase with simple chamfered newels. The ground floor front rooms have six-panel doors, panelled window shutters, and a later 19th century marble chimneypiece in the room on the left. The front block has a collarbeam roof, displaying five pairs of sawn and adzed trusses with crossed and notched apexes. The southern portion of the rear wing incorporates two pairs of collarbeam trusses, possibly dating to the mid-18th century, constructed with pegged halved and notched apexes and morticed pegged collarbeams. These trusses originally extended further south but were truncated when the front east-west range was built.