DisgrifiadBuilt early in the second half of the nineteenth century, the Queen's Hotel was in business by 1867 when its licence challenged but ultimately renewed. It was heavily renovated at a cost of £170,000 and renamed Gwesty Ty Gorsaf / Ty Gorsaf Hotel in 2012 by Punch Taverns.
This large-scale building is typical of its situation in the town centre near Diffwys Square. The main wing is situated parallel to High Street, oriented north-west by south-east and facing north-east, while other wings joins the main wing at the south-east and north-west corners extending back to the south-west. The front of the three-storey hotel is seven bays long It is rendered and has stone quoining and a string course between the first and second storeys. The first two bays sit under the gable of south-eastern wing which is bargeboarded with a pendant. These bays contain a large canted bay window with four arched lights and a wrought iron railing on top, above which are two second-storey rectangular sash windows and two third-storey arched sash windows. There are four further first-storey arched sash windows, two on either side of the double-door entrance which is in the fifth bay. There are five second-storey rectangular sash windows in bays three through seven above which are five third-storey square sash windows. All of the windows are dressed with stone architraves with exaggerated, rusticated keystones above the arched windows.
(Sources: Daily Post, 23.08.2012 Welsh Newspapers Online: Baner ac Amserau Cymru, 07.09.1867)
A.N. Coward, RCAHMW, 17.05.2018