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Latitude: 51.8529 / 51°51'10"N
Longitude: -3.1467 / 3°8'48"W
OS Eastings: 321116
OS Northings: 217761
OS Grid: SO211177
Mapcode National: GBR F0.TG3N
Mapcode Global: VH6CH.DPTG
Plus Code: 9C3RVV33+48
Entry Name: Horse Shoe Inn
Listing Date: 21 October 1998
Last Amended: 21 October 1998
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 20730
Building Class: Commercial
Also known as: The Horseshoe Inn
Horseshoe Inn
The Horseshoe Inn, Crickhowell
ID on this website: 300020730
The building is not shown on John Dowding’s map of the late C18, but first appears in Pigot’s Directory of 1835, where it is noted as an Inn.
Symmetrical 3-window, 2-storey inn, with lower coach house range to R. Whitened, rendered masonry under slate roofs. Two brick end stacks to inn, and rough-cast end stack to coach house. The inn has a central entrance with double half-lit doors. Each door has 3 panes with margin glazing bars. Flanked by wide 16-pane hornless sash windows with flat heads and stone sills. The upper storey has 3 similar but smaller windows. The W gable end has a small lean-to with C20 window to front. The coach house has a carriage entrance to the L with segmental head. To the R is a wide C20 opening with a square head; on the floor of this entrance is a 'barrel roll'. In the upper storey are 2 sash windows, horned and with 12-panes, and a fragment of a sill band to the R. Long rear wing behind inn of rubble masonry with large brick end stack. Its E side has sash windows to the upper storey and C20 openings below with flat concrete heads.
Modernised, open-plan interior.
Listed as an early C19 coaching inn retaining its historic character.
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