Owain Glyndwr Hotel

The original building dated to at least 1329 and was originally a monastery in the grounds of the nearby church. It was rebuilt or replaced circa 1740, but retained elements of the earlier building, and the current structure largely dates from this time. There are older sections of behind the frontage which was known as the New Inn in the 18th century. The hotel building was enlarged with an extra wing and re-roofed about 1890. The local trade was boosted when the route from London to Holyhead was rebuilt by Thomas Telford in the late 18th century. During 1854, George Borrow a travel writer visited the Inn for a lunchtimes drink and wrote it was “very appropriately called the Owen Glendower”, considering its location in Owain Glyndŵr's former domain. ==Description==

The hotel is of Italianate architecture, and integrates original features in the 19th century rebuild. The exterior walls of the two-storey main building are painted, coursed and square stone. The hipped slate roof has three gabled dormers and red-tiled decorative cresting with finials. The later wing has a similar roof, albeit with two paired sets of dormers on either side of the front wall stack, although the walls are roughcast rendered with smooth rendered dressings enriched with some terracotta. Two doors with radial fanlights lead inside from the central Corinithian portico porch. An eighteenth-century staircase and several six-panelled interior doors have survived. Substantial ceiling timbers remain at the rear of the main building as do other features that related to the earlier building. ==References==