Hafod Arms Hotel

Arched doorways lead off entrance hall which retains coloured glass to reception office; frosted glass, reading 'Smoke Room', over doors to present dining room; brass finger plates. Staircase has lower section of 1862, linking to earlier stair at landing level. Bottom flight has Gothic panelled newel and barley twist balusters, stick balusters to earlier work. Bar to right has shouldered chimneypiece with foliated plaster frieze. The former billiard room has dado panelling by the Ornamental Pyrographic Woodwork Company - includes two unusual panels with nautical scenes; inserted ribbed ceiling. The 1876 sale catalogue refers to a lantern light above.

Hotel, three storeys and attic, five bays, rubble stone with distinctive slate roof in Alpine manner. Exceptionally broad overhanging eaves carried on giant brackets formed of horizontal beams supported on wall-posts on corbels and raking curved braces. Moulded pendants under eaves soffit. Twinned brackets at ends. Brackets are set between the upper windows. Rendered large end chimneys. Hornless sash windows with voussoirs and painted slate sills, small 9-pane sashes to 2nd floor, 12-pane to main floors, but ground floor right has two canted bay windows with 8-8-8-pane sashes. Centre square-headed large doorway with Tudor-arched double board doors and glazed spandrels. Porch with tapered square pillars, pilaster responds, moulded cornice and set-back shallow gable. Iron railings each side on low stone plinth. Five prominent dormers with deep bargeboarded gables and small-pane casement windows. End walls have similar deeply overhanging verges on giant brackets. Left end has very large arched stair window set to left of centre: tooled grey stone surround with keystone and imposts, timber panels below tripartite 6-18-6-pane sash, and radiating-bar fanlight. Small canted 4-8-4-pane bay below. To left a 12-pane sash on first and second floors, in later C19 blue brick surround, and plate-glass sash below with stone voussoirs. Added lean-to at rear with blue brick surrounds to end-wall windows. Main roof rear has the deep bracketed eaves and dormers as on front.. Attached at rear SE is the 1862 billiard room. Two-storey, almost square, with pyramid slate roof with pyramid-roofed louvred ventilator at top, a roundel to rear, and part of a similar opening to E side suggest earlier origins. E side upper floor has big tripartite 4-8-4-pane to right and raised chimney breast to left (stack removed). Ground floor has lean-to to left. Right end has mark of roof of a removed adjoining range, presumably the one shown in 1860s view, and attic arched door in blue brick surround. 'GR' letterbox at corner. Attached single-storey 'Tea Rooms'; slate-roofed with big stone corniced cut-stone chimney to right end. Eaves carried forward over veranda of three wide bays, on square cast-iron pillars with cornices and high pedestals. Matching pilaster responds dividing bays of continuously glazed timber facade within. Long windows with top lights and fascia over. Shallow bows to outer bays, containing half-glazed double entrance doors, ten-light centre. To right is a rubble-stone single-storey range - the Three Bridges Bar - of two bays with shallower roof pitch. Broad mid C20 timber glazed 5-bay shopfront to left, with lozenge-traceried overlights over 4 long windows and centre door (an early C20 photograph shows a window and a door in raised stone surround here). Four-light window to right - a pair of cross-windows. To extreme right is two-storey gable, the end of a long stabling range running back. W side of this has small windows under eaves and one large ground floor window in blue brick surround.