Brecon Castle Hotel

Hotel; stucco. North elevation has central block of 3 storeys,3 windows; slate roof with projecting eaves and end chimneys. Hornless sash windows; 6-pane sashes on top floor, otherwise 12-pane sashes. Central flat-roofed porch with fanlight above door. To either side of central block, a lower 2-storey, 3-window wing with hipped roof of gradated slate courses. Two dormers with hipped slate roofs and casement glazing. Twelve pane sash windows. At W end there is a further similar wing, set back, of two storeys and attic with front wall of one bay's width with tripartite sash window on each floor. At E end, there is a 3-storey gabled block 2 windows wide. At right angles, late C19 or early C20 wing in stone with half-timbered gables and archway to former stable yard South elevation faces river. To L, westernmost block of one bay with semi-circular attic lunette and tripartite small-pane sash windows on first and ground floors. Then a 3-window block with two hipped dormers and with modern block built in front of it. Third block comprises a rear range to the central block in the front elevation; this has a 2-storey canted bay window at the W end and two further bays to the E with 12-pane sash windows in all openings. At E end, a high projecting block (refashioned externally in late C19 to early C20) has 2 transomed and mullioned windows with architraves, entablatures and pediments on first floor and, on ground floor, a large bay window with balustraded parapet.

Interior of Hotel has early to mid C19 detailing including doorways with fluted architraves and angle blocks, ceiling beams, panelled ceilings.