Avondale Hotel was erected in 1892 to the design of E. W. M. Corbett, the first building to be built on Clarence Road. It was demolished and replaced around the turn of the twenty-first century.

It was a large two-storey corner building, with attics, of red and yellow brick on the corner of Hunter Street and Clarence Road. The eastern corner was topped with an octagonal turret, the angled sides of which gave shape to the semi-hexagonal corner of three bays. This corner section was set off from the main section of the seven-bay Hunter Street elevation by a large chimney with volutes to corners. The Clarence Road elevation was of two broad bays. The ground-floor windows and doors were within semi-circular arches, with prominent keystones, the doors with semi-circular fanlights above, the windows with panelling below. The second-storey windows were segmental-headed sash windows while the attic windows above were within pedimented dormers. Above the side entrance in the Hunter Street elevation was an advanced bay articulated by pillars and topped with ball finials at the corners. The westernmost bay of the Clarence Road elevation, which contained the main entrance, was advanced and gabled. It was articulated with pilasters and had volutes at the corners.

Internally, there was a large lounge in the corner of the ground floor under the turret as well as a ground-floor bar, private rooms, and an outhouse to rear. The second storey had bedrooms, including a large turret room, and a bathroom.

(Sources: Welsh School of Architecture drawings, WSA/D3/32?39; Victorian Society Tour Notes, VS01/16; Newman, Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London: 1995), p. 272)
A.N. Coward, RCAHMW, 06.08.2018