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Latitude: 52.0827 / 52°4'57"N
Longitude: -4.661 / 4°39'39"W
OS Eastings: 217761
OS Northings: 246046
OS Grid: SN177460
Mapcode National: GBR CZ.BY8P
Mapcode Global: VH2MP.5X78
Plus Code: 9C4Q38MQ+3H
Entry Name: The Black Lion Hotel
Listing Date: 14 April 1992
Last Amended: 14 April 1992
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 10484
Building Class: Commercial
Also known as: Black Lion Hotel
Black Lion Hotel, Cardigan
ID on this website: 300010484
Location: Situated on street line opposite Eben's Lane.
County: Ceredigion
Community: Cardigan (Aberteifi)
Community: Cardigan
Built-Up Area: Cardigan
Traditional County: Cardiganshire
Tagged with: Hotel
Later C18 inn. The principal inn of Cardigan from the C18, site of Town Council meetings before Shire Hall was built 1784. The facade was stuccoed in C19, and is the earliest surviving brick front in the town. The porch was rebuilt after vehicle damage.
Red brick, Flemish bond with stucco cornice and parapet and slate roof with brick end stacks. Three-storey, 5 window range of sashes with cambered brick heads, 6-pane to second floor, 12-pane to first floor, ground floor sashes replaced by shallow 12-pane C20 bow windows. Centre door with traceried overlight. Slate sills except to ground floor that has C20 brick sills. Door is in C20 rebuilt timber classical porch of 2 Roman Doric columns, the shafts untapered and without bases, pilaster responds, entablature with triglyphs over columns and flat cornice. Two lead downpipes with embossed lions on rainwater heads.
Rear is stone with 2 rear wings, that to south taller with truncated brick stack, that to north with 2 brick corner stacks and arch-headed gable window.
Interior Ground floor altered, one brick-arched fireplace on south end.
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